Textron Aviation Inc 525C
N242CF is a Textron Aviation Inc 525C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2025. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Frist Aviation LLC, an LLC in Nashville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 3, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for commuter, dated June 13, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 525C · all 525Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 525C0458
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Williams FJ44-4A · 3,443 lb thrust
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A237A5 (octal 50433645)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 3, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Commuter · June 13, 2025
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01488464
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Frist Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3100 West End Ave Ste 1225
Nashville, TN 37203-1380
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N242CF, 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 Frist Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 3, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for commuter, dated June 13, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 525C0458 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N242CF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23 (serial 23-462, cancelled November 17, 2014). 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 N242CF: Accident on March 8, 1992 at Romeoville, IL: 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: Piper PA-23-150 · operated under 091
THE PILOT SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN TO MAKE A PRECAUTIONARY LANDING WHEN HE DID NOT RECEIVE A SAFE INDICATION THAT THE LANDING GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS INABILITY OF THE PILOT TO RESTART THE LEFT ENGINE AFTER INTENTIONALLY SHUTTING IT DOWN TO SIMMULATE AN EMERGENCY.
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