Piper PA-25-250
N42VA is a Piper PA-25-250, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Fault Line Flyers, a corporation in Leander, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 18, 2001 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial advertising, dated May 3, 1999.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-25-250 · all PA-25-250s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. A crop sprayer; the fabric covering is easy to repair in the field. This is how the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 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
- 25-3027
- 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 · Lycoming IO-540-A1A5 · 290 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1964
- Transponder code
- A4FB22 (octal 51175442)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 18, 2001
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Aerial advertisingFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 3, 1999
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00671674
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fault Line Flyers (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- PO Box 1428
Leander, TX 78646-1428
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N42VA links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-25 Pawnee 455 registered
- Piper 44,840 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540-A1A5 16 aircraft with this engine series · 290 hp
- Fault Line Flyers 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Leander, TX 56 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,976 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 67 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 188 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540-A1A5 33 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540-A1A5 6 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N42VA.json.
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The public federal record on N42VA, 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 Fault Line Flyers, a corporation, certificate issued May 18, 2001, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 3, 1999, 35 years after the 1964 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 25-3027 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N42VA 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 N42VA. 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 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 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 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data