{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2014-05-08","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-04-22","city":"WATERFORD","country_code":"US","county_code":"125","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"33838","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"HONEYWELL","engine_model":"TFE731-3AR","engine_thrust_lb":3880,"expiration_date":"2030-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-10-20","maker":"Gates Learjet Corp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GATES LEARJET CORP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5170702","mode_s_code":"51602232","mode_s_hex":"A7049A","model":"55","n_number":"N551RA","name":"ROYAL AIR FREIGHT INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N551RA is a Gates Learjet Corp 55, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1982. It has 13 seats. It is registered to Royal Air Freight INC, a corporation in Waterford, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 22, 2014 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 8, 2014.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Royal Air Freight INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 22, 2014, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 8, 2014, 32 years after the 1982 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 076 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N551RA 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 N551RA. 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":13,"serial_number":"076","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2141 AIRPORT RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00170463","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N551RA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1982,"zip":"483271207"}