Gates Learjet Corp. 35A
N61RA is a Gates Learjet Corp. 35A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1987. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Royal Air Freight INC, a corporation in Waterford, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated July 27, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gates Learjet Corp.
- Model
- 35A · all 35As and related versions
- Serial number
- 630
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Garrett TFE731 SERIES · 3,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1987
- Cruising speed
- 400 mph
- Transponder code
- A7EDDD (octal 51766735)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 12, 2021
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · July 27, 1999
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00834021
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Royal Air Freight INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2141 Airport Rd
Waterford, MI 48327-1207
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N61RA, 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 Royal Air Freight INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 12, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 27, 1999, 12 years after the 1987 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 630 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N61RA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Allen Ray Franklin SHA-SH2 GLASAIR (serial 761, cancelled July 6, 2015); Piper PA-31T (serial 31T7820027, cancelled date not given). 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 N61RA: Accident on March 12, 2013 at Spanish Fork, UT: minor 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: Franklin GLASAIR II · operated under 091
A loss of engine power due to fuel starvation, which likely resulted from air being introduced into the fuel system through the worn shaft of an electric fuel boost pump.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR13LA147 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