Cirrus Design Corp SR22
N242MB is a Cirrus Design Corp SR22, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Red Bird Aviation LLC, an LLC in Waxhaw, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 24, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 28, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cirrus Design Corp
- Model
- SR22 · all SR22s and related versions
- Serial number
- 0911
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A23882 (octal 50434202)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 24, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 24, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 28, 2004
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00103999
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Red Bird Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1008 Berwick Ct
Waxhaw, NC 28173-6550
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.
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The public federal record on N242MB, 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 Red Bird Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 24, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 28, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0911 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N242MB 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]
1 NTSB record under N242MB: Incident on October 22, 2014 at Lexington, NC: no injuries, minor 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: Cirrus Design CORP SR22 · operated under 091
Maintenance personnel's improper tightening of the crankcase through bolt nuts during reassembly of the engine at the last overhaul, which resulted in the failure of the crankshaft and the subsequent total loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA15IA024 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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