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Gates Learjet Corp. 35A
N81RA is a Gates Learjet Corp. 35A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1982. 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 May 11, 2012 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 22, 1996.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Royal Air Freight, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gates Learjet Corp.
- Model
- 35A · all 35As 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 35 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
- 472
- 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
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Garrett TFE731 SERIES · 3,500 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 400 mph
- Transponder code
- AB087B (octal 52604173)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 11, 2012
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 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 · March 22, 1996
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00352614
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Royal Air Freight INC
- 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
- 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 1
Connections how N81RA links to the rest of the register
- Learjet 35 161 registered
- Gates Learjet Corp. 135 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Royal Air Freight, Inc. · charter operator
- Garrett (Honeywell) TFE731 series 693 aircraft with this engine series · 3,500 lb thrust
- Royal Air Freight INC 52 aircraft in the fleet
- Waterford, MI 168 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,236 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Learjet 35 41 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Learjet 35 873 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Learjet 35 251 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N81RA, 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 May 11, 2012, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 22, 1996, 14 years after the 1982 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 472 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81RA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Rutan Aircraft Factory RUTAN 77 SOLTAIRE (serial 001, cancelled September 23, 1994). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N81RA. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data