{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2004-04-28","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-07-24","city":"WAXHAW","country_code":"US","county_code":"179","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17042","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"IO-550 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-07-24","maker":"Cirrus Design Corp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CIRRUS DESIGN CORP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2130001","mode_s_code":"50434202","mode_s_hex":"A23882","model":"SR22","n_number":"N242MB","name":"RED BIRD AVIATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Lexington","damage":"MINR","date":"2014-10-22","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA15IA024","probable_cause":"Maintenance personnel's improper tightening of the crankcase through bolt nuts during reassembly of the engine at the last overhaul, which resulted in the failure of the crankshaft and the subsequent total loss of engine power.","registration":"N242MB","state":"NC","summary":"Incident on October 22, 2014 at Lexington, NC: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N242MB 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 Red Bird Aviation LLC, an LLC in Waxhaw, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 24, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 28, 2004.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Red Bird Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 24, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated April 28, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0911 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N242MB according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N242MB: Incident on October 22, 2014 at Lexington, NC: no injuries, minor damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"0911","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1008 BERWICK CT","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00103999","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N242MB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2004,"zip":"281736550"}