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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Jiangxi Hongdu Av Ind Co Ltd CJ-6
N493M is a Jiangxi Hongdu Av Ind Co Ltd CJ-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Raider Aviation LLC, an LLC in Merritt Island, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Jiangxi Hongdu Av Ind Co Ltd
- Model
- CJ-6 · all CJ-6s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Jiangxi Hongdu Av Ind Co Ltd CJ-6 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
- 4932007
- 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
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A61C50 (octal 51416120)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 31, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 23, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01035434
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Raider Aviation LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- 2460 Millrace Way
Merritt Island, FL 32952-4130
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N493M links to the rest of the register
- Jiangxi Hongdu Av Ind Co Ltd CJ-6 10 registered
- Jiangxi Hongdu Av Ind Co Ltd 11 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Raider Aviation LLC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Merritt Island, FL 211 aircraft registered in this town
- Merritt Island Airport · COI
- Florida 21,702 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N493M.json.
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The public federal record on N493M, 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 Raider Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 31, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4932007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N493M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Mooney M-18LA (serial 104, cancelled January 31, 1957); W F Stewart Co M-2 (serial 2, cancelled May 25, 1942). 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 N493M. 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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data