Learjet Inc 24
N68LU is a Learjet Inc 24, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1968. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Lewis University, a corporation in Romeoville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 1986 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 2, 1968.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Learjet Inc
- Model
- 24 · all 24s 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 Learjet 24 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
- 163
- 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
- TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Ge CJ610-SER · 2700 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 363 mph
- Transponder code
- A901EB (octal 52200753)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 21, 1986
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 2, 1968
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00352526
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lewis University (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1 University Pkwy
Romeoville, IL 60446-2200
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N68LU links to the rest of the register
- Learjet 24 16 registered
- Learjet Inc 846 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- General Electric CJ610-series 31 aircraft with this engine series · 2700 hp
- Lewis University 38 aircraft in the fleet
- Romeoville, IL 43 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,049 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Learjet 24 36 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Learjet 24 144 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Learjet 24 66 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the General Electric CJ610-series 9 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the General Electric CJ610-series 25 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N68LU, 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 Lewis University, a corporation, certificate issued August 21, 1986, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated April 2, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 163 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N68LU 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 N68LU. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data