N17A1980 Gates Lear Jet 36A
Safety record in brief:No NTSB accidents or incidents since 1982No ADs since 1998 matched1 service difficulty report
Registration
FAA Aircraft Registry · Oct 17, 2026- Registered owner
- Valiair Limited Co Trustee
- Owner type
- LLC
- City, state
- Casper, WY
- Certificate issued
- Jun 6, 2024
- Expires
- Jun 30, 2031
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and Development
- Airworthiness date
- Aug 26, 2003
We never show street addresses, even though they appear in the public FAA file. Individual owners are shown by city and state only.
Airframe & engine
FAA Registry + type dataAirframe
- Manufacturer
- Gates Lear Jet
- Model
- 36A
- Year
- 1980
- Serial number
- 046
- Aircraft type
- Fixed wing multi engine
- Category
- Land
- Certification
- Type Certificated
- Seats
- 10
- Engines
- 2
- Max takeoff weight
- 12,500 - 19,999 lb
- Mode S code
- A116D4
Engine
- Make and model
- Alliedsign Tfe731-5br
- Type
- Turbo-fan
- Power
- 4,750 lb thrust
Total time and engine hours aren't public. They appear here once the owner adds logbooks.
Ownership history
Ownership history from FAA records- 2024 – nowValiair Limited Co TrusteeCasper, WY · current
- 1973 – 1976Individual ownerColumbia City, IN · different airframe: 1973 Adams Sidewinder S/N 212203
- Date unknownIndividual owneras N146MJ
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- until 1947Name not published by the FAAdifferent airframe: Goodyear Aircraft Corp L S/N 17
Individual owners are shown by city and state only.
Safety record
NTSB · Oct 15, 2026 · FAA ADs · Oct 17, 2026 · SDRs · Oct 16, 2026NTSB events (0)
No NTSB accidents or incidents found for this airframe since 1982.
Accident history for this modelADs published since 1998 that may apply (0)
These match the airframe or engine model. Whether each one applies, and whether it's been complied with, depends on serial numbers, equipment and logbook entries. Applicability must be confirmed by a mechanic against the aircraft's records.
No ADs published since 1998 matched this airframe or engine model.
AI-extracted — verify against original. Matched from each AD's applicability section; ADs replaced by a later AD are left out.
Service Difficulty Reports (1)
Reports of failures and defects that operators and repair stations sent to the FAA since 1995. A report describes one finding; it is not an accident.
- Landing gear · centering cam · corrodedJan 19, 1995
DURING NLG STRUT RESEALING, THE LOWER CENTERING CAM WAS FOUND UNSERVICEABLE DUE TO CORROSION. FIFTY PERCENT OF THE FLANGE SEPARATING THE FELT WIPER AND THE SCRAPER RING WAS CORRODED AWAY. THE REPLACEMENT PART IS 2342106-2 AND HAS A LIGHT GREEN ANODIZING. THE ORIGINAL PART HAS A LIGHT GRAY ANODIZING.
From FAA Service Difficulty Reports; matched by N-number and serial number.
Sources
- FAA Aircraft RegistryRegistration, owner city and state, airframe, engineupdated Oct 17, 2026
- NTSB accident and incident databaseAccidents and incidents since 1982updated Oct 15, 2026
- FAA Airworthiness Directives (Federal Register)ADs published since 1998updated Oct 17, 2026
- FAA Service Difficulty ReportsReports since 1995updated Oct 16, 2026