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N123RA

Dassault/Sud FAN JET FALCON

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMichigan

N123RA is a Dassault/Sud FAN JET FALCON, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1966. It has 12 seats. It is registered to Royal Air Freight INC, a corporation in Waterford, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2004 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 20, 1998.

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Aircraft

Maker
Dassault/Sud
Model
FAN JET FALCON · all FAN JET FALCONs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Dassault/Sud FAN JET FALCON family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
30
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Ge CF700 SERIES · 4,200 lb thrust
Fuel
Electricity
Seats
12
Year built
1966
Cruising speed
337 mph
Transponder code
A0604F (octal 50060117)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
April 15, 2004
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 20, 1998
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00872314

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Royal Air Freight INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
2141 Airport Rd
Waterford, MI 48327-1207

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

2001-03-13Cessna 310R · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1989-01-13Piper PA-28R-201 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Connections how N123RA links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Waterford, MI 168 aircraft registered in this town
  • Michigan 7,236 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N123RA.json.

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N123RA, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Royal Air Freight INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 15, 2004, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 20, 1998, 32 years after the 1966 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. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N123RA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 310R (serial 310R0221, cancelled March 13, 2001); Piper PA-28R-201 (serial 28R7837045, cancelled January 13, 1989). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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. [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N123RA: Accident on January 8, 2001 at Bluefield, WV: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

NYC01FA064Accident on January 8, 2001 at Bluefield, WV: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 310R0221

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 310R · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to execute the published missed approach procedure. A factor was heavy snowfall during the approach.

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CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data