Cessna 310Q
N8242Q is a Cessna 310Q, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Birds Eye View INC, a corporation in Farmington, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 27, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 310Q · all 310Qs and related versions
- Serial number
- 310Q0715
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 167 mph
- Transponder code
- AB4264 (octal 52641144)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 22, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 22, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 27, 1973
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00473691
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Birds Eye View INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5504 Arroyo Dr
Farmington, NM 87402-5002
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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 N8242Q, 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 Birds Eye View INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 22, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 27, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 310Q0715 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8242Q 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 N8242Q: Accident on April 1, 2025 at Midvale, OH: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 310Q · operated under 091
On April 1, 2025, about 1704 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 310Q, N8242Q, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Midvale, Ohio. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot’s family members stated that he had been practicing “360° maneuvers.” Preliminary Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data showed that the airplane departed about 1640 from Harry Clever Field Airport (PHD), New Philadelphia, Ohio, and made a series of 360° turns southeast of the airport (see …
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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