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A Commander Aircraft Co 114, the same model family as N6042X
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N6042X

Commander Aircraft Co 114-B

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida

N6042X is a Commander Aircraft Co 114-B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to G & M Island Aviation LLC, an LLC in Clearwater, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 7, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 25, 1997.

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Aircraft

Maker
Commander Aircraft Co
Model
114-B · all 114-Bs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Commander Aircraft Co 114 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
14652
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 SER · 300 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
4
Year built
1997
Transponder code
A7D8CF (octal 51754317)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 7, 2025
Expires
November 30, 2032
Last FAA action
November 7, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 25, 1997
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00976821

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
G & M Island Aviation 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
231 Sand Key Estates Dr
Clearwater, FL 33767-2979

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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 2

1990-08-29Beech C23 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1973-10-02Mooney M20A · Valid registration

Connections how N6042X links to the rest of the register

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The public federal record on N6042X, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to G & M Island Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 7, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 25, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 14652 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6042X was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech C23 (serial M2165, cancelled August 29, 1990); Mooney M20A (serial 1633, cancelled October 2, 1973). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N6042X: Accident on May 29, 1988 at Meriden, CT: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

NYC88LA151Accident on May 29, 1988 at Meriden, CT: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: M-2165

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 23 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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