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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Apex CROSS-5X
N2481M is an Apex CROSS-5X, a weight-shift aircraft with a four-stroke engine, built in 1994. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Scottsdale, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 11, 2009 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 11, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Apex
- Model
- CROSS-5X
- Serial number
- 5237
- Type
- Weight-shift controlFAA type of aircraft code 7 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Verner Mtr VM133M · 81 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A2503E (octal 50450076)
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 11, 2009
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 11, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00376199
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bass Stephen G
- 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
- 7723 N Pinesview Dr
Scottsdale, AZ 85258-3456
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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 2
Connections how N2481M links to the rest of the register
- Apex 6 aircraft on the register
- Verner Mtr VM133M 3 aircraft with this engine series · 81 hp
- Scottsdale, AZ 684 aircraft registered in this town
- Scottsdale Airport · SDL
- Arizona 8,422 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N2481M.json.
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The public federal record on N2481M, 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 Bass Stephen G, an individual, certificate issued August 11, 2009, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 11, 2008, 14 years after the 1994 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5237 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2481M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-12 (serial 12-1557, cancelled October 23, 1950); Glenn Brian GOLDWING (serial 010, cancelled date not given). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2481M. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data