Cirrus Design Corp SR20
N1281 is a Cirrus Design Corp SR20, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Cirrusazflmi LLC, an LLC in Midland, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 13, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cirrus Design Corp
- Model
- SR20 · all SR20s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1581
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A073E5 (octal 50071745)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 12, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 12, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 13, 2005
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00208139
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cirrusazflmi LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3310 N Bent Oak Dr
Midland, MI 48640-2379
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1281, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Cirrusazflmi LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 12, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 13, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1581 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1281 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Waco GXE (serial 865, cancelled December 7, 1939). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N1281: Accident on August 26, 2008 at Greenville, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cirrus Design Corp. SR20 · operated under 091
The deer that ran onto the runway contacting the airplane. A factor associated with the accident was the dark night conditions.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data