Gates Learjet Corp 55B
N55VC is a Gates Learjet Corp 55B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1986. It has 13 seats. It is registered to R.T. Vanderbilt Holding Company INC, a corporation in Norwalk, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2013 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 21, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gates Learjet Corp
- Model
- 55B · all 55Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 130
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbojet, 2 motors · Garrett TFE731 SERIES · 3,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 13
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- A6FEF0 (octal 51577360)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2013
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · December 21, 1986
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00742867
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- R.T. Vanderbilt Holding Company INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 30 Winfield St
Norwalk, CT 06855-1329
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N55VC, 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 R.T. Vanderbilt Holding Company INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 11, 2013, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated December 21, 1986, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 130 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N55VC 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 N55VC. 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 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