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A Learjet 45, the same model family as N455NJ
A Learjet 45 like this one, not N455NJ itself. Photo: Laurent ERRERA from L'Union, France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Pictures of N455NJ itself may be on Planespotters · JetPhotos · Airliners.net. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026
N455NJ

Learjet Inc 45

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMichigan

N455NJ is a Learjet Inc 45, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. It has 12 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Northern Jet Management, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.

Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 1:08 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Learjet Inc
Model
45 · all 45s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Learjet 45 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
437
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
Seats
12
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A585E4 (octal 51302744)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
May 1, 2026
Expires
May 31, 2033
Last FAA action
May 1, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
Ownership
Fractional
FAA record id
01107743

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Northern Jet Management INC
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
5500 44Th St SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-4055
Co-owners
Jt Real Estate LLC / Cio Holdings INC / Illini AG Aviation LLC / Marsh Air LLC / Culver Franchising System LLC
Charter N455NJ with Northern Jet Management, Inc.:

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 N455NJ links to the rest of the register

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Place
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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N455NJ, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Northern Jet Management INC, a co-owned, certificate issued May 1, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. Fractional ownership is recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 437 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N455NJ according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N455NJ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data