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N242BD

Douglass Bryan C RV-10

Valid Montana

N242BD is a Douglass Bryan C RV-10, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 26, 2011 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 16, 2012.

Aircraft

Maker
Douglass Bryan C
Model
RV-10
Serial number
40084
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-D4A5 · 260 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2011
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-10
Transponder code
A2378A (octal 50433612)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 26, 2011
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · February 16, 2012
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01074731

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Douglass Bryan C
Type
Individual
Address
4945 Goodan Ln
Missoula, MT 59808-8644

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N242BD, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Douglass Bryan C, an individual, certificate issued July 26, 2011, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 16, 2012, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40084 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N242BD according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N242BD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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