{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2003-08-26","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-06-06","city":"CASPER","country_code":"US","county_code":"025","cruise_speed_mph":400,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"02508","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"ALLIEDSIGN","engine_model":"TFE731-5BR","engine_thrust_lb":4750,"expiration_date":"2031-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-05-18","maker":"Gates Lear Jet","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GATES LEAR JET","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5170603","mode_s_code":"50213324","mode_s_hex":"A116D4","model":"36A","n_number":"N17A","name":"VALIAIR LIMITED CO TRUSTEE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N17A is a Gates Lear Jet 36A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1980. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Valiair Limited CO Trustee, an LLC in Casper, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated August 26, 2003.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Valiair Limited CO Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued June 6, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 26, 2003, 23 years after the 1980 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"This airframe (serial 046) previously flew as N146MJ. N146MJ cancelled date not given. The conveyance sequence lives in the FAA aircraft records file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"N17A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Adams SIDEWINDER (serial 212203, cancelled May 14, 1976); Goodyear Aircraft Corp L (serial 17, cancelled November 12, 1947). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N146MJ, N17A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":10,"serial_number":"046","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"330 S CENTER ST STE 300","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00262574","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N17A","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1980,"zip":"826012873"}