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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 2, 2026Morane-Saulnier MS 500
N42FM is a Morane-Saulnier MS 500, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1949. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Tsi Holdco INC, a corporation in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated August 30, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Morane-Saulnier
- Model
- MS 500
- Serial number
- 751
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1949
- Transponder code
- A4F9CF (octal 51174717)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 12, 2025
- 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 30, 2010
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00894137
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tsi Holdco INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4455 South Blvd Ste 500
Virginia Beach, VA 23452-1387
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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 1
Connections how N42FM links to the rest of the register
- Morane-Saulnier 18 aircraft on the register
- Tsi Holdco INC 80 aircraft in the fleet
- Virginia Beach, VA 325 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,976 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N42FM, 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 Tsi Holdco INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 12, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 30, 2010, 61 years after the 1949 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 751 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N42FM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed 188C (serial 188C-1077, cancelled November 28, 1975). 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 N42FM. 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 November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data