Dassault FALCON 900 EX
N42NF is a Dassault FALCON 900 EX, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1997. It has 21 seats. It is registered to Cest la Vie LLC, an LLC in Piedmont, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 21, 2019.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 10:07 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dassault
- Model
- FALCON 900 EX · all FALCON 900 EXs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. This is how the Dassault FALCON 900 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
- 12
- 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, 3 motors · Alliedsign TFE731-60 · 5,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 21
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A4FA78 (octal 51175170)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 25, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 27, 2025
- 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 21, 2019
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00286341
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cest la Vie LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 127
Piedmont, OK 73078-0127
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N42NF links to the rest of the register
- Dassault FALCON 900 277 registered
- Dassault 232 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- AlliedSignal (Honeywell) TFE731-60 45 aircraft with this engine series · 5,000 lb thrust
- Cest la Vie LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Piedmont, OK 14 aircraft registered in this town
- Oklahoma 5,650 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Dassault FALCON 900 72 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Dassault FALCON 900 250 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Dassault FALCON 900 224 supplemental type certificates
- Where N42NF is now · Last seen October 17 at 10:07 am.
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The public federal record on N42NF, 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 Cest la Vie LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 25, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 21, 2019, 22 years after the 1997 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 12 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N42NF 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 N42NF. 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