Learjet Inc 60
N878CS is a Learjet Inc 60, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2002. It has 11 seats. It is registered to 501 Aviation LLC, an LLC in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 16, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 16, 2002.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Venture Jets LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Learjet Inc
- Model
- 60 · all 60s 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 60 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
- 263
- 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 · P&W Canada 305 SERIES · 5200 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- AC1451 (octal 53012121)
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 16, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2026
- 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 · November 16, 2002
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00003499
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- 501 Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 10426
Lancaster, PA 17605-0426
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 N878CS links to the rest of the register
- Learjet 60 238 registered
- Learjet Inc 845 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Venture Jets LLC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada 305 series 50 aircraft with this engine series · 5200 hp
- 501 Aviation LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Lancaster, PA 59 aircraft registered in this town
- Lancaster Airport · LNS
- Pennsylvania 6,181 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Learjet 60 22 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Learjet 60 792 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Learjet 60 130 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Drain, broken · 2024-05-24
- Report filed on this aircraft: Windshield, cracked · 2001-11-13
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The public federal record on N878CS, 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 501 Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 16, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated November 16, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 263 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N878CS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Israel Aircraft Industries GALAXY (serial 027, cancelled April 30, 2004). 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 N878CS. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data