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A Learjet 25, the same model family as N988AS
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N988AS

Gates Learjet 25D

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNew York

N988AS is a Gates Learjet 25D, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Dutchess Community College, a government body in Poughkeepsie, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 1, 1978.

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Aircraft

Maker
Gates Learjet
Model
25D · all 25Ds and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Learjet 25 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
257
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
10
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
390 mph
Transponder code
ADC8ED (octal 53344355)

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 9, 2023
Expires
August 31, 2030
Last FAA action
August 9, 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 · September 1, 1978
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00080134

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dutchess Community College (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
Type
GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
53 Pendell Rd
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-1512
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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N988AS links to the rest of the register

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N988AS, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Dutchess Community College, a government body, certificate issued August 9, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 257 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N988AS according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N988AS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data