Cirrus Design Corp SR22
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.
Where is it now Last seen Monday at 3:34 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cirrus Design Corp
- Model
- SR22 · all SR22s and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. With a whole-airframe parachute. This is how the Cirrus SR22 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1151
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- AD82CC (octal 53301314)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 24, 2010
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 29, 2004
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00136879
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N97Rj Airplane LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N97RJ links to the rest of the register
- Cirrus SR22 7,110 registered
- Cirrus Design Corp 9,516 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-550 series 3,077 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Type certificate A00009CH · held by Cirrus Design CORP
- N97Rj Airplane LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Leesburg, VA 216 aircraft registered in this town
- Leesburg Executive · JYO
- Virginia 5,975 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cirrus SR22 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cirrus SR22 508 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cirrus SR22 155 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-550 series 239 reports since 1995
- Where N97RJ is now · Last seen Monday at 3:34 pm.
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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.
Valid registration to N97Rj Airplane LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 24, 2010, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 29, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1151 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
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]
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 N97RJ: Accident on July 7, 1990 at New Braunfels, TX: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
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
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data