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N242MZ

Moravan Z242L

Valid Maryland

N242MZ is a Moravan Z242L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Columbia, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 2009 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 22, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Moravan
Model
Z242L · all Z242Ls and related versions
Serial number
0732
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A23898 (octal 50434230)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 7, 2009
Expires
June 30, 2029
Last FAA action
August 11, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · July 22, 1999
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00405832

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bechara Nizar E
Type
Individual
Address
6501 Hazel Thicket Ct
Columbia, MD 21044-6048

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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 N242MZ, 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 Bechara Nizar E, an individual, certificate issued January 7, 2009, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 22, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0732 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N242MZ 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 N242MZ. 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