Gates Lear Jet Corp. 36
N12FN is a Gates Lear Jet Corp. 36, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1975. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Gh Equipment LLC, an LLC in Dover, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 29, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated April 7, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gates Lear Jet Corp.
- Model
- 36 · all 36s and related versions
- Serial number
- 016
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Garrett TFE731-2-2B · 3,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 192 mph
- Transponder code
- A051E3 (octal 50050743)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 29, 2021
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 12, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Other · April 7, 2022
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00245470
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gh Equipment LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 8 The Grn # 19084
Dover, DE 19901-3618
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N12FN, 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.
Valid registration to Gh Equipment LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 29, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 7, 2022, 47 years after the 1975 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 016 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N12FN according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
1 NTSB record under N12FN: Accident on November 30, 2022 at Newport News, VA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Gates Lear Jet CORP. 36 · operated under 091
A left main landing gear tire rupture during takeoff, which resulted in a runway overrun.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA23LA075 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data