Gates Learjet Corp. 35A
N945W is a Gates Learjet Corp. 35A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1980. 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 July 26, 2011 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 12, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gates Learjet Corp.
- Model
- 35A · all 35As and related versions
- Serial number
- 301
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Airesearch TFE731 SER · 3,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 400 mph
- Transponder code
- AD21AF (octal 53220657)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 26, 2011
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · February 12, 1980
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00623270
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Royal Air Freight INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N945W, 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 July 26, 2011, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated February 12, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 301 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N945W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson SM-8A (serial M-4205, cancelled March 19, 1948). 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 N945W. 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