Learjet Inc 60
N189SB is a Learjet Inc 60, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2002. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Sky Ballas LLC, an LLC in El Paso, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 29, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 30, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Learjet Inc
- Model
- 60 · all 60s and related versions
- Serial number
- 210
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW305A · 4,679 lb thrust
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A163AD (octal 50261655)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 29, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 17, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · October 30, 2023
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00012999
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky Ballas LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7007 Boeing Dr
El Paso, TX 79925-1109
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N189SB, 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 Sky Ballas LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 29, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 30, 2023, 21 years after the 2002 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 210 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N189SB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bowley Steven J MURPHY MOOSE (serial 099, cancelled September 18, 2017). 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 N189SB: Accident on June 12, 2011 at Aguila, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Bowley Murphy · operated under 091
A fire that originated from a fuel leak at an undetermined location in the engine compartment. Contributing to the accident was the builder's use of non-aviation hardware for engine fluid fittings and lines.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR11FA258 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