{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1997-02-25","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-12-09","city":"AUSTIN","country_code":"US","county_code":"453","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Loan release","doc_type_code":"REL","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-17"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54561","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"TAY 611SER","engine_thrust_lb":12450,"expiration_date":"2029-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-22","maker":"Gulfstream Aerospace","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3980115","mode_s_code":"53324727","mode_s_hex":"ADA9D7","model":"G-IV","n_number":"N98LT","name":"98LT LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N98LT is a Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1995. It has 22 seats. It is registered to 98Lt LLC, an LLC in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 25, 1997. 1 document is on file: loan release.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to 98Lt LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 9, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated February 25, 1997, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1278 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N98LT according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"1 document received recently: Loan release (September 17, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N98LT. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":22,"serial_number":"1278","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7901 CAMERON RD BLDG 3 STE 101","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00245592","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N98LT","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1995,"zip":"78754"}