Gates Lear Jet 35
N159RA is a Gates Lear Jet 35, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1975. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Bar Aircraft Leasing LLC, an LLC in Waterford, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 7, 2012 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated July 1, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gates Lear Jet
- Model
- 35 · all 35s and related versions
- Serial number
- 024
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Garrett TFE731 SERIES · 3,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 219 mph
- Transponder code
- A0ED16 (octal 50166426)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 7, 2012
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · July 1, 1975
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00211833
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bar Aircraft Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2141 Airport Rd
Waterford, MI 48327-1207
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N159RA, 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 Bar Aircraft Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 7, 2012, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated July 1, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 024 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N159RA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172S (serial 172S8319, cancelled May 5, 2007). 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]
1 NTSB record under N159RA: Accident on December 27, 2006 at Tulsa, OK: no injuries, destroyed. 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: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from a hangar and parked airplane during the unauthorized use of an airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW07LA056 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data