Cessna 525
N242RF is a Cessna 525, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1998. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 23, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 30, 1998.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 525 · all 525s 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 Cessna 525 CitationJet (CJ series) 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
- 525-0294
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Williams FJ 44 SERIES · 1,900 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A238EA (octal 50434352)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 23, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 8, 2026
- 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 · December 30, 1998
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00673866
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Owsley Robert L
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 243 e 5Th Ave Pmb 121
Anchorage, AK 99501-2519
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N242RF links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 525 CitationJet (CJ series) 1,972 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Williams International FJ 44 series 552 aircraft with this engine series · 1,900 lb thrust
- Anchorage, AK 2,530 aircraft registered in this town
- Lake Hood Airport · LHD
- Merrill Field · MRI
- Ted Stevens Anchorage International · ANC
- Bold Airport · A13
- 2 more landing places in town
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 525 CitationJet (CJ series) 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 525 CitationJet (CJ series) 920 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 525 CitationJet (CJ series) 111 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Williams International FJ 44 series 168 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N242RF, 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 Owsley Robert L, an individual, certificate issued August 23, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 30, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 525-0294 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N242RF 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 N242RF. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data