365 Embraer Legacy business jets are currently on the FAA registry — spanning the super-midsize Legacy 450 (165), the longer-range Legacy 500 (150), and the larger-cabin Legacy 600/650 (50), which shares its airframe with the regional airliner Embraer built before converting it into a business jet.
Why ownership history is easy to lose track of on this fleet
A Legacy sale typically runs into seven figures and comes with a formal pre-buy inspection and title search — against that scale, a $79 history check is a five-minute sanity check, not a cost decision. Many Legacys have passed through corporate flight departments, charter operators, and fractional programs over their service life, and the FAA can reissue a cancelled N-number to a different airframe after five years (14 CFR 47.15/47.17). That means a search of only the current tail number can miss an accident recorded under a prior registration — or wrongly attach another jet's accident to the one you're buying. A serial-number cross-match is the only way to know which history actually belongs to the airframe in front of you.
What a $79 report adds
Current FAA registration status, prior registrants, recent FAA filings (bills of sale, security agreements/liens — the same paper trail a title company will also pull), full NTSB accident and incident history, and the serial-number cross-match that catches an accident hiding under a prior tail number.
Check a specific tail number
Use our free tail-number lookup to check registration status and a summary of what a full report would show, or see our jet aircraft pre-purchase checklist for what to budget alongside a history check.