Gates Lear Jet 36A
N17A is a Gates Lear Jet 36A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1980. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Valiair Limited CO Trustee, an LLC in Casper, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated August 26, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gates Lear Jet
- Model
- 36A · all 36As and related versions
- Serial number
- 046
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Alliedsign TFE731-5BR · 4,750 lb thrust
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 400 mph
- Transponder code
- A116D4 (octal 50213324)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 6, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 18, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · August 26, 2003
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00262574
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Valiair Limited CO Trustee
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 330 S Center St Ste 300
Casper, WY 82601-2873
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N17A, 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 Valiair Limited CO Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued June 6, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 26, 2003, 23 years after the 1980 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]
This airframe (serial 046) previously flew as N146MJ. N146MJ cancelled date not given. The conveyance sequence lives in the FAA aircraft records file. [2]
N17A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Adams SIDEWINDER (serial 212203, cancelled May 14, 1976); Goodyear Aircraft Corp L (serial 17, cancelled November 12, 1947). 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 N146MJ, N17A. 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