Gates Learjet Corp. 35A
N51FN is a Gates Learjet Corp. 35A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1976. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Gh Equipment LLC, an LLC in Dover, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 29, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated April 13, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gates Learjet Corp.
- Model
- 35A · all 35As and related versions
- Serial number
- 069
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Honeywell TFE731-2 · 3,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 400 mph
- Transponder code
- A65FA0 (octal 51457640)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 29, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 12, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Other · April 13, 2022
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00212014
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gh Equipment LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 8 The Green #19084
Dover, DE 19901
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N51FN, 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 Gh Equipment LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 29, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 13, 2022, 46 years after the 1976 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 069 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51FN was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gates Lear Jet 35 (serial 059, cancelled March 18, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N51FN: Accident on April 2, 1990 at Carlsbad, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Gates Learjet 35 · operated under PUBU
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX90TL#01 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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