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N242CA

Cirrus Design Corp SR22

Valid Texas

N242CA is a Cirrus Design Corp SR22, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Beaver Air LLC, an LLC in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 19, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Cirrus Design Corp
Model
SR22 · all SR22s and related versions
Serial number
10206
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550-N · 310 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2024
Transponder code
A237A0 (octal 50433640)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 8, 2024
Expires
November 30, 2031
Last FAA action
November 8, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 19, 2024
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01464571

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Beaver Air LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1506 Rosalie St
Houston, TX 77004-2848

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

2011-02-14Cessna 172S · exported to Australia · Second notice for re-registration or renewal
1998-04-09Dehavilland DHC-6-300 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N242CA, 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 Beaver Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 8, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 19, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10206 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N242CA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172S (serial 172S9630, cancelled February 14, 2011); Dehavilland DHC-6-300 (serial 342, cancelled April 9, 1998). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N242CA: Accident on April 13, 1997 at Hilo, HI: minor injuries, destroyed. Accident on June 12, 1991 at Denver, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 2

LAX97LA157Accident on April 13, 1997 at Hilo, HI: minor injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: 342

Aircraft on the NTSB record: De Havilland DHC-6-300 · operated under 091

the pilot's inadequate en route fuel consumption calculations, which led to his failure to recognize a deteriorating fuel duration versus time-to-go situation in a more timely way.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX97LA157 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

DEN91LA082Accident on June 12, 1991 at Denver, CO: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 342

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing DHC-6-300 · operated under 091

THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO PERFORM AN ADEQUATE PREFLIGHT, I.E., NOT FOLLOWING THE CHECK LIST AND THE NORMAL BRAKE SYSTEM WAS INOPERATIVE AS A RESULT OF NO HYDRAULIC SYSTEM PRESSURE (HYDRAULIC SYSTEM CIRCUIT BREAKER NOT 'IN').

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN91LA082 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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