C-FXOO is a Dassault Falcon 900B, manufacturer's serial number 86, built in 1990. It is the aircraft people mean when they search for "the Linus Tech Tips jet." The Canadian Civil Aircraft Register has carried it under Linus Media Group of Surrey, British Columbia since 10 November 2025. For roughly ten years before that it was a working charter aeroplane in the NovaJet fleet, which is why a surprising number of charter websites still advertise it as if you could book it tomorrow. You cannot, and this page explains why.
C-FXOO at a glance
| Registration | C-FXOO (Mode S hex C03E37) |
|---|---|
| Aircraft | Dassault Falcon 900B, serial 86, built 1990 |
| Registered owner | Linus Media Group, Surrey, BC, since 10 November 2025 (operating as Influence Air) |
| Previous operator | NovaJet (2106701 Ontario Inc.), Toronto, charter, 2016 to 2025 |
| Home base | Pitt Meadows Regional Airport (CYPK), British Columbia |
| Airframe time | 13,757 hours and 6,721 landings at the 2025 sale listing |
| Charter status | Privately operated. Not available for charter. |
Thirty-six years, two very different jobs
Serial 86 left Dassault's Bordeaux-Mérignac line in 1990, near the end of the original Falcon 900 production run and just before the improved 900B standard became the catalogue aircraft. Where it spent its first quarter century is not something we can document from public Canadian records, so we will not guess. The trail we can follow starts on 8 April 2016, the registration date attached to the aircraft in the OpenSky Network's copy of the register, when it was put into service by 2106701 Ontario Inc., the numbered company behind NovaJet.
NovaJet ran it the way a Toronto charter operator runs a heavy jet: out of Pearson, on the kinds of trips a Falcon is good at. Florida in winter, Europe when a client wanted to cross the Atlantic without a stop, and plenty of domestic hops that a smaller jet could have flown but a fifteen-seat cabin made more comfortable. Charter marketplaces such as Victor and Jettly listed it under NovaJet's certificate, which is why those listings are still floating around the internet today. The exterior was refreshed in 2018 and the interior redone in 2019 in a dense fifteen-seat layout, a configuration that tells you the aircraft was being sold by the seat as much as by the hour.
The turn came in 2025. NovaJet completed a major inspection, the C-check in the sale paperwork, in May and put the aircraft on the market showing 13,757 hours and 6,721 landings. Linus Media Group, the Surrey-based company behind the Linus Tech Tips channels, bought it. Jack Sweeney, who runs Ground Control and tracks notable aircraft for a living, pulled the register entry: registered to LMG's headquarters address on 10 November 2025, with a fresh Certificate of Registration issued on 11 December. The operating name on the paperwork is Influence Air. The domain for it had been registered in August, a few months ahead of the deal, in the name of the company's chief technology officer.
That is the whole arc. A decade of charter work, a heavy inspection, a sale, and a new life as a corporate aircraft for a media company that films most of what it does.
What "900B" means for serial 86
The Falcon 900 is a trijet, which in 1990 was still the way Dassault answered the question of how to cross oceans in a business jet without twin-engine diversion limits. Three Honeywell TFE731 engines, a 33-foot cabin you can stand up in, and a wing derived from the Falcon 50 that lets it use runways a Gulfstream of the same era would have to skip.
The "B" matters. Dassault introduced the 900B standard in 1991 around the TFE731-5BR engine, which produces 4,750 pounds of thrust a side against the original -5AR's lower rating. The gain shows up exactly where a Vancouver-based owner will notice it: hot days, high airports and long legs. Existing 900s could be brought up to B standard, and both the register and the 2025 sale listing describe serial 86 as a 900B. Range in the real world is a little under 4,000 nautical miles with reserves, which covers Pitt Meadows to anywhere in North America nonstop and puts Hawaii, Central America and, with the right winds, the western edge of Europe inside reach.
Where C-FXOO lives now
The aircraft is not at Vancouver International. It is based at Pitt Meadows Regional Airport, a general-aviation field roughly 40 kilometres east of downtown Vancouver in the Fraser Valley, a short drive from the owner's Surrey offices. Two things make that work. The Falcon's short-field wing is comfortable on a regional runway, and a small airport means the aircraft can be filmed, loaded and launched without the choreography of a major international hub.
Public ADS-B trackers back this up. A fan-run site that logs the aircraft's movements shows Pitt Meadows as the origin or destination of most legs since December 2025, with trips as far as Bedford, Massachusetts (about 2,200 nautical miles each way, flown nonstop in early September 2026) and shorter runs to Edmonton. If you want to see it move yourself, the live tracker below pulls the aircraft's current position from ADS-B whenever it is airborne.
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Request a Quote →Can you charter it?
No. This is the question most people arrive with, so it deserves a plain answer. C-FXOO left NovaJet's certificate with the sale and is now flown privately for its owner. Every charter listing that still shows the aircraft, including the ones that quote fifteen seats and a Pitt Meadows base, is describing the NovaJet era or has been updated with the new base but not the new status. None of them can put you on it.
What you can book is the same aircraft type. Our registry data shows C-FPFS, C-GOIL and C-GWFM registered to Skyservice Business Aviation, one of the country's largest charter operators, and NovaJet itself still lists a Falcon 900DX. Typical Falcon 900 charter pricing is covered on our Falcon 900 charter cost page.
What a 1990 Falcon 900B is worth
Neither side disclosed the price. Ground Control's estimate at the time of the register change was US$5 to 6 million, and that is a defensible number for a 900B of this age with a fresh heavy inspection. Two things move a Falcon of this vintage inside that band. The first is engine programme coverage: a TFE731 overhaul runs well into seven figures per engine, so an aircraft enrolled on Honeywell's maintenance programme is worth materially more than one paying as it goes. The second is the inspection calendar. Buying just after a C-check, as LMG did, means the next big bill is years away.
For a buyer the arithmetic is straightforward. A 1990 airframe at this price buys a cabin and a range that would cost several times as much in a new aircraft, in exchange for older avionics, higher fuel burn and the reality that any trijet from the eighties or nineties costs more per hour to keep than the twin-engine jets that replaced it.
A registration with a past
Canadian registration marks are reissued once an aircraft is deregistered, and C-FXOO has been around the block. The Aviation Safety Network's incident database records a Boeing 757-28A carrying these marks in a tailstrike on 14 December 1994. That was a different aircraft in a different decade, but it is worth knowing if you search the registration and find an airliner looking back at you.
Specifications
The type figures below are for the Falcon 900 family from our aircraft database. Where this airframe differs, the serial-specific value is noted.
| Engines | 3 × Honeywell TFE731-5BR, 4,750 lbf each (900B standard) |
|---|---|
| Seats | Typically 12 to 14; this airframe configured for 15 |
| Range | About 4,000 nautical miles with reserves |
| Cruise | Around 481 knots high-speed, 459 knots long-range |
| Ceiling | 51,000 feet |
| Cabin | 33.2 ft long, 7.7 ft wide, 6.2 ft high; 127 cu ft baggage |
| Takeoff distance | About 4,850 feet at maximum weight |
| This airframe | Serial 86, built 1990, exterior 2018, interior 2019, C-check May 2025, 13,757 h / 6,721 landings at sale |
Full type data, fleet numbers and comparisons are on the Dassault Falcon 900 model page, and we compare it head to head with the Gulfstream G550.
How we verified this
We checked the registration against the Canadian Civil Aircraft Register and the OpenSky Network's aircraft database on 10 September 2026, and cross-read the ownership change against Ground Control's reporting, which quotes the register directly. Airframe hours, landings, refurbishment years and the May 2025 inspection come from the 2025 sale listing as reported by Ground Control and echoed by charter listings from the NovaJet era. Base and flight patterns come from public ADS-B logs; we treat those as strong evidence rather than proof, since trackers can miss legs. If you have a correction, tell us and we will update the page and note the change here.
- Ground Control: Influence Air, Linus Tech Tips' private jet acquisition (Jack Sweeney, 24 January 2026)
- Transport Canada, Canadian Civil Aircraft Register (search C-FXOO)
- Aircraft.com sale listing, C-FXOO 1990 Dassault Falcon 900B
- OpenSky Network aircraft database, hex C03E37
- Aviation Safety Network: Boeing 757-28A C-FXOO tailstrike, 14 December 1994
