{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1989-10-23","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-09-30","city":"HOPKINS","country_code":"US","county_code":"053","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"29001","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"GARRETT","engine_model":"TFE731 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":3500,"expiration_date":"2030-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-30","maker":"Gates Learjet Corp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GATES LEARJET CORP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5170706","mode_s_code":"51500271","mode_s_hex":"A680B9","model":"55C","n_number":"N518SB","name":"GBA LEGACY LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N518SB is a Gates Learjet Corp 55C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1979. It has 13 seats. It is registered to Gba Legacy LLC, an LLC in Hopkins, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 23, 1989.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Gba Legacy LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 30, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 23, 1989, 10 years after the 1979 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":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 139A for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N518SB according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N518SB. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":13,"serial_number":"139A","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1005 MAINSTREET","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbojet","type_engine_code":"4","unique_id":"00304721","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N518SB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"553437517"}