Learjet Inc 31A
N218NB is a Learjet Inc 31A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1998. It has 10 seats. It is registered to David L Samani MD INC, a corporation in Lincoln, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2016 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 3, 2000.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Learjet Inc
- Model
- 31A · all 31As 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 31 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
- 146
- 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 · Alliedsign TFE 731-2B · 3,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A1D868 (octal 50354150)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 2016
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- 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 · November 3, 2000
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00966821
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- David L Samani MD INC
- 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
- 2222 S 16Th St Ste 240
Lincoln, NE 68502-3764
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N218NB links to the rest of the register
- Learjet 31 119 registered
- Learjet Inc 844 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- AlliedSignal (Honeywell) TFE 731-2B 69 aircraft with this engine series · 3,500 lb thrust
- David L Samani MD INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Lincoln, NE 209 aircraft registered in this town
- Lincoln Airport · LNK
- Nebraska 2,947 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Learjet 31 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Learjet 31 159 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Learjet 31 107 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the AlliedSignal (Honeywell) TFE 731-2B 30 reports since 1995
- Where N218NB is now · Last seen today at 9:11 am.
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The public federal record on N218NB, 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 David L Samani MD INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 14, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated November 3, 2000, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 146 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N218NB 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 N218NB. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data