Gates Learjet Corp 55
N628EK is a Gates Learjet Corp 55, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1982. It has 13 seats. It is registered to Kauffman Land & Development LLC, an LLC in Fort Lupton, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2011 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 15, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gates Learjet Corp
- Model
- 55 · all 55s and related versions
- Serial number
- 071
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Garrett TFE731 SERIES · 3,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 13
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A83463 (octal 52032143)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 19, 2011
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · November 15, 1982
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00160571
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kauffman Land & Development LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 10137 Weld County Road 19
Fort Lupton, CO 80621
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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 N628EK, 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 Kauffman Land & Development LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 19, 2011, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated November 15, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 071 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N628EK 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 N628EK. 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