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N859BT

Cirrus Design Corp SR20

Valid Kentucky

N859BT is a Cirrus Design Corp SR20, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2026. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Boyd Thornton Aviation LLC, an LLC in Nicholasville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 21, 2026.

Aircraft

Maker
Cirrus Design Corp
Model
SR20 · all SR20s and related versions
Serial number
11286
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-390-C3B6 · 215 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2026
Transponder code
ABC8F2 (octal 52744362)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 12, 2026
Expires
June 30, 2033
Last FAA action
June 12, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · March 21, 2026
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01541003

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Boyd Thornton Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
3867 Union Mill Rd
Nicholasville, KY 40356-8301

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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 1

2019-04-18Textron Aviation Inc 208B · exported to Australia · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N859BT, 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 Boyd Thornton Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 12, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 21, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11286 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N859BT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Textron Aviation Inc 208B (serial 208B5502, cancelled April 18, 2019). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N859BT. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data