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N97RJ

Cirrus Design Corp SR22

Valid Virginia

N97RJ is a Cirrus Design Corp SR22, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 4 seats. It is registered to N97Rj Airplane LLC, an LLC in Leesburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 24, 2010 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 29, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Cirrus Design Corp
Model
SR22 · all SR22s and related versions
Serial number
1151
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2004
Transponder code
AD82CC (octal 53301314)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 24, 2010
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · October 29, 2004
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00136879

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
N97Rj Airplane LLC
Type
LLC
Address
414 Mosby Dr SW
Leesburg, VA 20175-2606

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1991-04-10Minges SPECIAL M-30 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N97RJ, 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 N97Rj Airplane LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 24, 2010, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated October 29, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1151 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N97RJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Minges SPECIAL M-30 (serial 1838, cancelled April 10, 1991). 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 N97RJ: Accident on July 7, 1990 at New Braunfels, TX: fatal, destroyed (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

FTW90FA138Accident on July 7, 1990 at New Braunfels, TX: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 1838

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mingess-Bennett M30 · operated under 091

FAILURE OF THE PILOT IN THE OVERTAKING AIRCRAFT (N97RJ) TO SEE-AND-AVOID THE AIRCRAFT THAT HAD BEEN LEADING (N911HG). FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE LACK OF ABILITY FOR THE PILOT IN THE LEAD AIRCRAFT (N911HG) TO BE ABLE SEE OTHER AIRCRAFT IN THE RACE, AND SELF-INDUCED PRESSURE FOR BOTH PILOTS TO MANEUVER THEIR AIRCRAFT IN AN EFFORT TO GET A WINNING ADVANTAGE.

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 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