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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Raytheon Aircraft Company 400A
N318KS is a Raytheon Aircraft Company 400A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1998. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Vaerus Jet Sales LLC, an LLC in Topeka, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 20, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 11, 1998.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Raytheon Aircraft Company
- Model
- 400A · all 400As 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 Beechcraft 400 Beechjet 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
- RK191
- 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 · P&W Canada JT15D 5 SER · 2,900 lb thrust
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A3657B (octal 50662573)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 20, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 27, 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 11, 1998
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00357191
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vaerus Jet Sales 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
- 6410 SE Forbes Ave
Topeka, KS 66619-1447
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N318KS links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft 400 Beechjet 311 registered
- Raytheon Aircraft Company 2,138 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D 5 series 450 aircraft with this engine series · 2,900 lb thrust
- Vaerus Jet Sales LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to March 19, 2027
- Topeka, KS 136 aircraft registered in this town
- Philip Billard Municipal · TOP
- Topeka Regional · FOE
- Kansas 5,731 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft 400 Beechjet 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft 400 Beechjet 1,793 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft 400 Beechjet 131 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D 5 series 6 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N318KS.json.
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The public federal record on N318KS, 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 Vaerus Jet Sales LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 20, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated June 11, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RK191 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N318KS 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 N318KS. 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