Gates Learjet Corp 55
N257SJ is a Gates Learjet Corp 55, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1985. It has 13 seats. It is registered to N257Sj Aviation CORP, an LLC in Middletown, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 3, 2007. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gates Learjet Corp
- Model
- 55 · all 55s and related versions
- Serial number
- 55-118
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Garrett TFE731-3AR · 3,880 lb thrust
- Seats
- 13
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- A27318 (octal 50471430)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 5, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 4, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · May 3, 2007
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00330879
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N257Sj Aviation CORP
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1232 Choptank Rd
Middletown, DE 19709-9038
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N257SJ, 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 N257Sj Aviation CORP, an LLC, certificate issued May 5, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 3, 2007, 22 years after the 1985 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 55-118 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N257SJ according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 15, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N257SJ. 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 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