Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1B
N242AM is an Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lindsay, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2012 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 12, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aviat Aircraft Inc
- Model
- A-1B · all A-1Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2242
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A23779 (octal 50433571)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2012
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 12, 2003
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00056349
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Zike Jay N
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 24095 Avenue 230
Lindsay, CA 93247-9723
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N242AM, 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 Zike Jay N, an individual, certificate issued September 28, 2012, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 12, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2242 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N242AM was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Swearingen SA226TC (serial TC310, cancelled November 5, 1993); Swearingen SA226TC (serial TC-344, cancelled June 16, 1980). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N242AM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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 August 27, 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