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Gates Learjet Corp. 35A
N181EF 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 Aloft Aviation Services LLC, an LLC in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 9, 1978.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gates Learjet Corp.
- Model
- 35A · all 35As 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 Learjet 35 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
- 190
- 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 · Garrett TFE731 SERIES · 3,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 400 mph
- Transponder code
- A144CD (octal 50242315)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 30, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 30, 2025
- 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 · June 9, 1978
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00931703
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aloft Aviation Services 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
- 500 Ammons Rd Ste 200
Spartanburg, SC 29306-4040
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N181EF links to the rest of the register
- Learjet 35 161 registered
- Gates Learjet Corp. 135 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Garrett (Honeywell) TFE731 series 694 aircraft with this engine series · 3,500 lb thrust
- Aloft Aviation Services LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Spartanburg, SC 67 aircraft registered in this town
- Spartanburg Downtown Meml/Simpson Field · SPA
- South Carolina 3,111 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Learjet 35 41 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Learjet 35 873 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Learjet 35 251 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Latch, missing · 2005-06-12
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The public federal record on N181EF, 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 Aloft Aviation Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 30, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated June 9, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 190 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N181EF 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 N181EF. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data