American AA-1B
N6242L is an American AA-1B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pattison, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 4, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 25, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- American
- Model
- AA-1B · all AA-1Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- AA1B-0042
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A827C2 (octal 52023702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 4, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 4, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 25, 1972
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00721676
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shawn James Robert
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 256
Pattison, TX 77466-0256
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.
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The public federal record on N6242L, 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 Shawn James Robert, an individual, certificate issued January 4, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA1B-0042 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6242L 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 N6242L: Accident on December 1, 2024 at Brenham, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Aviation AA-1B · operated under 091
On December 1, 2024, about 1438 central daylight time, an American Aviation AA-1B airplane, N6242L, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Brenham, Texas. The pilot had his passenger were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that there was a partial loss of engine power shortly after takeoff from runway 34 at Brenham Municipal Airport (11R), Brenham, Texas. The partial loss of engine power occurred about 500 ft above the ground as the airplane crossed over the departure…
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- 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