Cirrus Design Corp SR20
N42VR is a Cirrus Design Corp SR20, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Board Of Trustees Of Western Michigan University, a government body in Battle Creek, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 14, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cirrus Design Corp
- Model
- SR20 · all SR20s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1673
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360-ES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A4FB31 (octal 51175461)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 14, 2006
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00264659
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Board Of Trustees Of Western Michigan University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 237 N Helmer Rd
Battle Creek, MI 49037
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N42VR, 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 Board Of Trustees Of Western Michigan University, a government body, certificate issued April 15, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 14, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1673 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N42VR 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]
1 NTSB record under N42VR: Accident on January 21, 2022 at Angola, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cirrus Design CORP SR20 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to ensure adequate terrain clearance during an approach. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action when the airplane descended too low after transitioning to a visual descent to the runway.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA107 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data