Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Human-Machine Interface
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical
General None Reported / Taken
Aircraft; Human Factors; Equipment / Tooling
FMS Nav data base showed current except the date indicated was Nov. 1994 instead of 2014. The currency information was amber instead of white. Flight was carried out with no occurrence or deviations.
An overseas based Gulfstream Captain was taken aback while checking the Nav database during preflight to see that the Nav data appeared current yet the currency date year read 1994 vice 2014.