Gates Lear Jet 36A
N56PA is a Gates Lear Jet 36A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1976. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Phoenix Air Group INC, a corporation in Cartesville, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 26, 2013 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying, dated May 22, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gates Lear Jet
- Model
- 36A · all 36As and related versions
- Serial number
- 023
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Garrett TFE731 SERIES · 3,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 400 mph
- Transponder code
- A725D7 (octal 51622727)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 26, 2013
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial surveying · May 22, 1995
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00822740
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Phoenix Air Group INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 177 Highway 61 SE
Cartesville, GA 30120
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N56PA, 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 Phoenix Air Group INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 26, 2013, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 22, 1995, 19 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 023 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N56PA 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]
1 NTSB record under N56PA: Accident on May 10, 2023 at San Clemente Island, CA: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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 Lear Jet 36A · operated under 091
The pilots’ loss of airplane control following a catastrophic fire that started on the left side of the aft equipment bay (tail cone). The fire likely initiated from a leak from the left fuel motive flow line due to a b-nut that loosened for reasons that could not be determined based on available evidence.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR23FA185 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