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N42A

Cirrus Design Corp SR22T

Valid (manufacturer) Minnesota

N42A is a Cirrus Design Corp SR22T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Cirrus Design CORP, a non-citizen corporation in Duluth, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Cirrus Design Corp
Model
SR22T · all SR22Ts and related versions
Serial number
11618
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
5
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A4F946 (octal 51174506)

Registration

Status
Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
November 1, 2025
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01527438

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cirrus Design CORP
Type
Non-citizen corporation
Address
4515 Taylor Cir
Duluth, MN 55811

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 1

2026-09-29Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 2

2013-07-30Cessna 421A · Registration expired, pending cancellation
1973-10-03Beech E18S · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N42A, 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 Cirrus Design CORP, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11618 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N42A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 421A (serial 421A0135, cancelled July 30, 2013); Beech E18S (serial BA-133, cancelled October 3, 1973). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 29, 2026). [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N42A: Accident on April 4, 1988 at Freeport: fatal (5 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

MIA88RA139Accident on April 4, 1988 at Freeport: fatal (5 fatal).

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 421A · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA88RA139 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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