Gates Learjet Corp 55
N717AM is a Gates Learjet Corp 55, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1984. It has 13 seats. It is registered to an individual in Denver, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 5, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gates Learjet Corp
- Model
- 55 · all 55s and related versions
- Serial number
- 100
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Garrett TFE731 SERIES · 3,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 13
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- A9961A (octal 52313032)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 30, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · March 5, 2001
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00413455
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lopez Fabio
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1611
Denver, NC 28037-1611
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.
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The public federal record on N717AM, 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 Lopez Fabio, an individual, certificate issued July 30, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 5, 2001, 17 years after the 1984 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 100 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N717AM 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 N717AM: Accident on January 17, 1987 at Lynchburg, VA: no 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: Rockwell 500S · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO87LA015 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data