{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2009-10-05","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-07-30","city":"","country_code":"","county_code":"","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42005","engine_horsepower":235,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"TIO-540-AK1A","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-07-30","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072738","mode_s_code":"51515173","mode_s_hex":"A69A7B","model":"T182T","n_number":"N5242U","name":"","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5242U is a Cessna T182T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2009. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 5, 2009.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued July 30, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated October 5, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T18208957 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N5242U 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N5242U. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"","region_code":"","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"T18208957","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"01031538","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5242U","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2009,"zip":""}