Gates Learjet Corp. 35A
N163CK is a Gates Learjet Corp. 35A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1978. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Kalitta Charters LLC, an LLC in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2015 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 2, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gates Learjet Corp.
- Model
- 35A · all 35As and related versions
- Serial number
- 163
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Garrett TFE731 SERIES · 3,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 400 mph
- Transponder code
- A0FD0F (octal 50176417)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 24, 2015
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- March 11, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · February 2, 1979
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00933502
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kalitta Charters LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2820 Tyler Rd
Ypsilanti, MI 48198-6184
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N163CK, 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 Kalitta Charters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 24, 2015, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated February 2, 1979, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 163 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N163CK 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N163CK. 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 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