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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Moravan Z242L
N242CM is a Moravan Z242L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1994. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Zlin Parts America LLC, an LLC in Elmwood, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 12, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 20, 1994.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Moravan
- Model
- Z242L · all Z242Ls and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Moravan Z242 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 0661
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-540 SER · 260 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A237AB (octal 50433653)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 12, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 20, 1994
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00695022
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Zlin Parts America LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 6
Elmwood, WI 54740-0006
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N242CM links to the rest of the register
- Moravan Z242 19 registered
- Moravan 45 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming AEIO-540 series 434 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Zlin Parts America LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Elmwood, WI 7 aircraft registered in this town
- Wisconsin 6,164 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Moravan Z242 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Moravan Z242 189 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Moravan Z242 81 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-540 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-540 series 150 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N242CM, 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 Zlin Parts America LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 12, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 20, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0661 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N242CM according to the deregistered file. [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 N242CM. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data