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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Gates Lear Jet Corp. 36
N54PA is a Gates Lear Jet Corp. 36, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1974. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Vpc Planes LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2004 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 5, 1993.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Phoenix Air Group 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 yesterday at 9:54 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gates Lear Jet Corp.
- Model
- 36 · all 36s 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 Gates Lear Jet Corp. 36 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
- 004
- 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 · Honeywell TFE-731-SER · 4,000 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 192 mph
- Transponder code
- A6D6D9 (octal 51553331)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2004
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- September 29, 2025
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 5, 1993
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00704262
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vpc Planes 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
- PO Box 1680
Wilmington, DE 19899-1680
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 N54PA links to the rest of the register
- Gates Lear Jet Corp. 36 13 registered
- Gates Lear Jet Corp. 13 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Phoenix Air Group INC · charter operator
- Honeywell TFE-731-series 291 aircraft with this engine series · 4,000 lb thrust
- Vpc Planes LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,379 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,970 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Honeywell TFE-731-series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Honeywell TFE-731-series 2 reports since 1995
- Where N54PA is now · Last seen yesterday at 9:54 pm.
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The public federal record on N54PA, 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 Vpc Planes LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 30, 2004, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 5, 1993, 19 years after the 1974 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 004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N54PA 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 N54PA. 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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data