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Learjet Inc 31A
N229LJ is a Learjet Inc 31A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2001. It has 10 seats. It is registered to N229Lj LLC, an LLC in Bentonville, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 27, 2001.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Jet America INC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 6:12 pm.
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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
- 229
- 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 · Honeywell TFE-731-SER · 4,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A20373 (octal 50401563)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 21, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 21, 2026
- 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 27, 2001
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00043874
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N229Lj 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
- 4006 SW Hollyhock St
Bentonville, AR 72713-2010
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.
Connections how N229LJ 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
- Jet America INC · charter operator
- Honeywell TFE-731-series 291 aircraft with this engine series · 4,000 lb thrust
- N229Lj LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Bentonville, AR 126 aircraft registered in this town
- Bentonville Muni/Louise M Thaden Field · VBT
- Arkansas 3,497 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
- FAA orders naming the Honeywell TFE-731-series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Honeywell TFE-731-series 2 reports since 1995
- Where N229LJ is now · Last seen Thursday at 6:12 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N229LJ.json.
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The public federal record on N229LJ, 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 N229Lj LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 21, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated June 27, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 229 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N229LJ 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 N229LJ. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data