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A Learjet 35, the same model family as N129TK
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N129TK

Gates Learjet Corp. 35A

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesSouth Carolina

N129TK is a Gates Learjet Corp. 35A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1979. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Bankair INC, a corporation in West Columbia, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 27, 1979.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Bankair Inc., so it can be flown for hire.

Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 2:42 am.

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Aircraft

Maker
Gates Learjet Corp.
Model
35A · all 35As 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 Learjet 35 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
253
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 · Airesearch TFE731 SER · 3,500 lb thrust
Seats
10
Year built
1979
Cruising speed
400 mph
Transponder code
A076D4 (octal 50073324)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 9, 2021
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 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 · June 27, 1979
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00051362

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bankair 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
2406 Edmund Hwy
West Columbia, SC 29170-1930
Charter N129TK with Bankair Inc.:

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N129TK links to the rest of the register

Design
Flies for
Engine
Owner
  • Bankair INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
  • Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to November 14, 2026
Place
  • West Columbia, SC 35 aircraft registered in this town
  • South Carolina 3,111 aircraft registered
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N129TK.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N129TK, 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 Bankair INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 9, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated June 27, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 253 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N129TK according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N129TK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data