Learjet Inc 31A
N431DA 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 an individual in Lewes, Delaware. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 17, 1998. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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 today at 2:09 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
- 163
- 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
- A52721 (octal 51223441)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pendingFAA registration status code R (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- October 28, 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 · October 17, 1998
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00943616
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 16192 Coastal Hwy
Lewes, DE 19958-3608
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
Connections how N431DA 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
- AlliedSignal (Honeywell) TFE 731-2B 69 aircraft with this engine series · 3,500 lb thrust
- Lewes, DE 899 aircraft registered in this town
- Delaware 10,964 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
- Report filed on this aircraft: Downlock Switch, out of limits · 2008-04-19
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fire Loop, misaligned · 2008-02-22
- Report filed on this aircraft: Defog System, failed · 2007-10-04
- Where N431DA is now · Last seen today at 2:09 pm.
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The public federal record on N431DA, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated October 17, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 163 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N431DA according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 21, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N431DA. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data