Gates Learjet 25D
N203VS is a Gates Learjet 25D, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1981. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Calspan CORP, a corporation in Buffalo, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2005 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; crew training; market survey, dated December 4, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gates Learjet
- Model
- 25D · all 25Ds 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 25 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
- 347
- 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
- TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Ge CJ-610-8A · 2,950 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Electricity
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 390 mph
- Transponder code
- A19F14 (octal 50317424)
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 13, 2005
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 7, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and development; Crew training; Market surveyFAA certificate purpose code 156 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 4, 2025
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00052603
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Calspan CORP
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4455 Genesee St
Buffalo, NY 14225-1928
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N203VS links to the rest of the register
- Learjet 25 23 registered
- Gates Learjet 20 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- General Electric CJ-610-8A 9 aircraft with this engine series · 2,950 lb thrust
- Calspan CORP 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Buffalo, NY 66 aircraft registered in this town
- Buffalo Niagara International · BUF
- Buffalo Airfield · 9G0
- Buffalo-Lancaster Regional · BQR
- Clarence Aerodrome · D51
- New York 6,663 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Learjet 25 31 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Learjet 25 243 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Learjet 25 93 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the General Electric CJ-610-8A 6 airworthiness directives
- Where N203VS is now · Last seen today at 11:58 am.
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The public federal record on N203VS, 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 Calspan CORP, a corporation, certificate issued April 13, 2005, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 4, 2025, 44 years after the 1981 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 347 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N203VS 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 N203VS. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data