Piper PA-20
N1540A is a Piper PA-20, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1951. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Bragg, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 15, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-20 · all PA-20s and related versions
- Serial number
- 20-748
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1951
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- A0DB64 (octal 50155544)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 29, 2012
- 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). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 15, 1955
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00020890
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Morrill John R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 30260 N Highway 1
Fort Bragg, CA 95437-9620
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.
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The public federal record on N1540A, 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 Morrill John R, an individual, certificate issued March 29, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 15, 1955, 4 years after the 1951 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20-748 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1540A according to the deregistered file. [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]
2 NTSB records under N1540A: Accident on August 16, 1998 at Rio Vista, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 15, 1994 at Easton, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-20 · operated under 091
Failure of the pilot to adequately compensate for the existing wind condition and maintain directional control on rollout.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-20 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL. FACTORS INCLUDE SOFT, UNEVEN TERRAIN.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data