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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026King Ralph W SEAREY
N9042X is a King Ralph W SEAREY, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Minneola, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 4, 2016 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 6, 2004.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- King Ralph W
- Model
- SEAREY
- Serial number
- 1MK347C
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912S · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Kit
- PROGRESSIVE AERODYNE INC SEAREY
- Transponder code
- AC80BC (octal 53100274)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 4, 2016
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 6, 2004
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00130429
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- King Ralph W
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 267
Minneola, FL 34755-0267
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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
Connections how N9042X links to the rest of the register
- King Ralph W 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 912S 335 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Minneola, FL 5 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,704 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N9042X.json.
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The public federal record on N9042X, 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 King Ralph W, an individual, certificate issued February 4, 2016, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 6, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1MK347C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9042X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182D (serial 18253442, cancelled November 16, 1998). 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]
1 NTSB record under N9042X: Accident on January 17, 1992 at Put In Bay, OH: 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: Cessna 182-D · operated under 135
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTIAN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL DURING LANDING. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WERE THE SNOW ON THE RUNWAY AND THE GUSTY WINDS.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 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 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data