Royal Air (Royal Air Freight, Inc.)
Flies as Royal Air, as its own website says; the certificate is in the name Royal Air Freight, Inc.. Holds an FAA charter and air-taxi certificate (Part 135) under the designator BUHA, overseen by the FAA office coded GL23. 35 aircraft are listed on the certificate, mostly LR-35-A. Based in Waterford, Michigan, where it registers its own aircraft. Its flights broadcast the callsign Air Royal (RAX).
Website: royalair.com (found by search; tell us if it is wrong)
About Royal Air (Royal Air Freight, Inc.) from its own website, read October 13, 2026
Royal Air is an FAA-certified air carrier operating a fleet of over 40 aircraft from Waterford, Michigan. It provides private jet charter flights, expedited air freight services, and aircraft management through its Jet 1 Suites facility at Oakland County International Airport, drawing on more than 60 years of operational experience.
- Calls itself
- Royal Air
- What it is
- Charter operator
- Bases
- Waterford, MI KPTK; Pontiac, MI KPTK
- Aircraft it names
- Learjet, Falcon
- Services
- charter, air freight, aircraft management, hangar, fuel, line service
- Hours
- 24/7
- Certificates and audits it mentions
- Part 135
- Founded
- 1960
- Address
- Waterford, MI
- Telephone
- +1 248 886 9309
Written by the site from the pages of royalair.com on October 13, 2026; the company's own words and pictures stay on its site. Out of date or wrong? Tell us.
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In the air now from the volunteer receiver network
1 of this operator's aircraft is in the air over the United States right now. See them on the live map. Counted here: aircraft on the certificate, aircraft the company owns, and anything flying under its callsign, which can include aircraft it operates for others. Aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out.
Where the aircraft are in the air, on the ground, parked, or not heard lately · refreshed every half minute
1 in the air, 3 parked (last heard on the ground within 7 days), 23 not heard lately, 25 not heard since the site began listening.
Positions from the volunteer receiver network: an aircraft is "parked" when it was last heard on the ground within 7 days (it may have moved under a hangar roof or flown with the transponder off); "not heard" means nothing has been received since the date shown. Aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out.
Seen flying as Air Royal last 30 days · 24 aircraft
Aircraft the receiver network heard broadcasting this operator's callsign, since the site started keeping the record on 7 October 2026. Some belong to the certificate, some are owned by the company, and some may be flown for it under an agreement.
| Tail no. | Type | On the certificate | Flights heard | Last heard (UTC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N760RA | FA20 | yes | 283 | today at 7:52 pm |
| N61RA | LJ35 | yes | 152 | today at 7:34 pm |
| N220RA | BE20 | yes | 23 | today at 4:04 pm |
| N73RA | E110 | yes | 244 | today at 6:47 am |
| N780RA | FA20 | yes | 260 | today at 4:03 am |
| N20WK | FA20 | yes | 214 | today at 3:18 am |
| N417BA | LJ35 | yes | 135 | today at 2:57 am |
| N860RA | LJ60 | yes | 94 | yesterday at 9:00 pm |
| N551RA | LJ55 | yes | 103 | yesterday at 8:54 pm |
| N9RA | LJ35 | yes | 242 | yesterday at 7:07 pm |
| N850RA | FA50 | yes | 108 | Thursday at 8:00 pm |
| N239CD | FA20 | yes | 68 | Thursday at 6:58 pm |
| N804TF | LJ35 | yes | 87 | Thursday at 11:41 am |
| N766RA | FA20 | yes | 322 | Thursday at 11:25 am |
| N351AS | LJ35 | yes | 109 | Thursday at 1:42 am |
| N72RA | E110 | yes | 101 | Wednesday at 1:27 am |
| N41RA | LJ35 | yes | 166 | Tuesday at 11:00 pm |
| N669RA | LJ35 | yes | 33 | Tuesday at 1:37 am |
| N49RA | E110 | yes | 171 | Tuesday at 12:23 am |
| N68UP | FA20 | yes | 72 | Monday at 10:04 pm |
| N166RA | FA20 | yes | 325 | Sunday at 11:26 pm |
| N805PC | LJ55 | yes | 58 | Saturday at 9:41 pm |
| N950RA | FA50 | yes | 46 | November 7 at 6:06 am |
| N31RA | LJ35 | yes | 13 | October 30 at 4:24 pm |
Connections how this operator links to the rest of the register
- Learjet 35 12 on the certificate
- Embraer EMB-110 5 on the certificate
- Dassault FALCON 20 3 on the certificate
- Dassault/Sud FAN JET FALCON 2 on the certificate
- Dassault MYSTERE FALCON 20-F5 2 on the certificate
- Gates Learjet Corp. 12 on the certificate
- Dassault-Breguet 7 on the certificate
- Embraer 5 on the certificate
- Waterford, MI · where it registers its own aircraft
- Michigan 7,236 aircraft registered
- Royal Air Freight INC 52 aircraft in the fleet · the aircraft the FAA register lists under this name
- FAA charter and air-taxi certificate 35 aircraft listed · designator BUHA
- Callsign Air Royal (RAX) 24 aircraft heard in 30 days · on the live map
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/operator/royal-air-freight-inc.json.
Aircraft on the certificate 35 · grouped by the FAA's model shorthand
LR-35-A 14
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N31RA | Gates Learjet Corp. 35A | Royal Air Freight INC | 1979 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since 30 October 2026, last near Oakland County International, in the air then |
| N351AS | Gates Learjet Corp. 35A | Royal Air Freight INC | 1977 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Thursday at 1:42 am, in the air then |
| N417BA | Gates Learjet Corp. 35A | Royal Air Freight INC | 1979 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since today at 2:56 am, last near Huntington Municipal, in the air then |
| N41RA | Gates Learjet Corp. 35A | Royal Air Freight INC | 1979 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | parked parked at Boeing Fld/King County International, last heard Tuesday at 11:02 pm |
| N61RA | Gates Learjet Corp. 35A | Royal Air Freight INC | 1987 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since today at 7:33 pm, last near Melbourne Orlando International, in the air then |
| N669RA | Learjet Inc 35A | Royal Air Freight INC | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Tuesday at 1:36 am, last near Oakland County International, in the air then | |
| N71RA | Gates Learjet Corp. 35A | Royal Air Freight INC | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 | |
| N731RA | Gates Learjet Corp. 35A | Royal Air Freight INC | 1980 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since 7 October 2026, last near Oakland/Troy Airport, in the air then |
| N76RA | Gates Learjet Corp. 35A | Royal Air Freight INC | 1977 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N804TF | Gates Learjet Corp. 35A | Royal Air Freight INC | 1981 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Thursday at 11:45 am, in the air then |
| N81RA | Gates Learjet Corp. 35A | Royal Air Freight INC | 1982 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N841TF | Gates Learjet Corp. 35A | Royal Air Freight INC | 1981 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N945W | Gates Learjet Corp. 35A | Royal Air Freight INC | 1980 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since 13 October 2026, last near Oakland County International, in the air then |
| N9RA | Learjet Inc 35A | Royal Air Freight INC | 1989 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since yesterday at 7:14 pm, last near Middletown Rgnl/Hook Field, in the air then |
AMD-20-F5 8
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N166RA | Dassault/Sud FAN JET FALCON SER F | Royal Air Freight INC | 1981 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Sunday at 11:27 pm, last near Oakland County International, in the air then |
| N239CD | Dassault-Breguet MYSTERE FALCON 20-F5 | Royal Air Freight INC | 1975 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Thursday at 6:58 pm, last near Oakland County International, in the air then |
| N600RA | Dassault-Breguet MYSTERE FALCON 20-F5 | Royal Air Freight INC | 1984 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N68UP | Dassault/Sud FAN JET FALCON | Royal Air Freight INC | 1971 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Monday at 10:06 pm, last near Oakland County International, in the air then |
| N730RA | Dassault-Breguet FALCON 20 | Royal Air Freight INC | 1976 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N760RA | Dassault-Breguet FALCON 20 | Royal Air Freight INC | 1980 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | in the air in the air now, 35,975 ft, 5 nm from Moore-Murrell Airport, as RAX159 |
| N766RA | Dassault-Breguet FALCON 20 | Royal Air Freight INC | 1977 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Thursday at 11:29 am, last near Oakland County International, in the air then |
| N780RA | Dassault FALCON 20 F | Royal Air Freight INC | 1971 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since today at 4:05 am, in the air then |
EMB-110-P1 5
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N34A | Embraer EMB-110P1 | Royal Air Freight INC | 1981 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N49RA | Embraer EMB-110P1 | Royal Air Freight INC | 1983 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Tuesday at 12:25 am, last near Oakland County International, in the air then |
| N64DA | Embraer EMB-110P1 | Royal Air Freight INC | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 | |
| N72RA | Embraer EMB-110P1 | Royal Air Freight INC | 1981 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Wednesday at 1:29 am, in the air then |
| N73RA | Embraer EMB-110P1 | Royal Air Freight INC | 1982 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since today at 6:46 am, last near Oakland County International, in the air then |
BE-200-B200 2
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N220RA | Beech B200 | Royal Air Freight INC | 1983 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since today at 4:08 pm, last near Oakland County International, in the air then |
| N74RA | Raytheon Aircraft Company B200 | Royal Air Freight INC | 2004 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since 6 November 2026, last near Oakland County International, in the air then |
LR-55-55 2
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N551RA | Gates Learjet Corp 55 | Royal Air Freight INC | 1982 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since yesterday at 9:00 pm, last near Oakland County International, in the air then |
| N805PC | Gates Learjet Corp 55 | Royal Air Freight INC | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Saturday at 9:47 pm, last near Oakland County International, in the air then |
AMD-20-E5 1
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N20WK | Dassault/Sud FAN JET FALCON | Royal Air Freight INC | 1974 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since today at 3:20 am, last near Oakland County International, in the air then |
AMD-50-50 1
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N950RA | Dassault-Breguet FALCON 50 | Royal Air Freight INC | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Wednesday at 5:29 pm, in the air then |
DASSAULT-FALCON-50 1
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N850RA | Dassault-Breguet FALCON 50 | Royal Air Freight INC | 1988 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | parked parked at Quonset State Airport, last heard Thursday at 8:00 pm |
LR-60-60 1
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N860RA | Learjet Inc 60 | Royal Air Freight INC | 2004 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | parked parked at Teterboro Airport, last heard yesterday at 9:03 pm |
Sources: the FAA's list of Part 135 and 121 certificate holders and the aircraft on each certificate, November 9, 2026; the FAA Civil Aviation Registry, November 12, 2026; the volunteer receiver network for what is in the air. An aircraft on a charter certificate is often owned by someone else and managed by the operator. Contact people named in the sources are not shown, the site's policy at this time. Is this your company? Claim or correct this listing: fix the base, add your website, send your own pictures. Add the "Listed on eFlight" badge to your website.