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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026Embraer EMB-135BJ
N135SC is an Embraer EMB-135BJ, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2006. It has 37 seats. It is registered to Ballator Equipment Leasing LLC, an LLC in Beech Mountain, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 30, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 2, 2017.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Elite Air, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen Sunday at 5:43 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Embraer
- Model
- EMB-135BJ · all EMB-135BJs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Embraer EMB-135 ERJ 135 and Legacy 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
- 14500972
- 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 · Rolls-Royc AE 3007A1E · 8,917 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 37
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A08F57 (octal 50107527)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 30, 2021
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2026
- 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 · May 2, 2017
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01243693
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ballator Equipment Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 145 Elderberry Ridge Rd
Beech Mountain, NC 28604-8091
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N135SC links to the rest of the register
- Embraer EMB-135 ERJ 135 and Legacy 119 registered
- Embraer 661 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Elite Air, Inc. · charter operator
- Rolls-Royce AE 3007A1E 37 aircraft with this engine series · 8,917 lb thrust
- Ballator Equipment Leasing LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Beech Mountain, NC 1 aircraft registered in this town
- North Carolina 7,126 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Embraer EMB-135 ERJ 135 and Legacy 115 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Embraer EMB-135 ERJ 135 and Legacy 8,704 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Embraer EMB-135 ERJ 135 and Legacy 104 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce AE 3007A1E 10 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Rolls-Royce AE 3007A1E 234 reports since 1995
- Where N135SC is now · Last seen Sunday at 5:43 pm.
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The public federal record on N135SC, 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 Ballator Equipment Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 30, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 2, 2017, 11 years after the 2006 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 14500972 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N135SC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-12 (serial 12-3231, cancelled December 17, 2014). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N135SC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data