{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-10-15","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-03-05","city":"GILBERT","country_code":"US","county_code":"021","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54523","engine_horsepower":1140,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"SPEY MK 511SR","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-13","maker":"Gulfstream Aerospace","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3980100","mode_s_code":"51413606","mode_s_hex":"A61786","model":"G-1159A","n_number":"N492A","name":"N492A LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N492A is a Gulfstream Aerospace G-1159A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1984. It has 21 seats. It is registered to N492A LLC, an LLC in Gilbert, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 5, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated October 15, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to N492A LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 5, 2020, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 15, 2025, 41 years after the 1984 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 425 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N492A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Martin 404 (serial 14240, cancelled June 30, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N492A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":21,"serial_number":"425","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AZ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1425 W ELLIOT RD STE 201","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbojet","type_engine_code":"4","unique_id":"00402533","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N492A","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1984,"zip":"852335142"}