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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N157DM

Airborne Australia CLASSIC EDGE X

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesSouth Carolina

N157DM is an Airborne Australia CLASSIC EDGE X, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Easley, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated May 2, 2007.

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Aircraft

Maker
Airborne Australia
Model
CLASSIC EDGE X
Serial number
582-537
Type
Weight-shift controlFAA type of aircraft code 7 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 582UL · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2007
Transponder code
A0E487 (octal 50162207)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
March 28, 2007
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 2, 2007
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00338009

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mcinnis David M
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
411 S Pendleton St
Easley, SC 29640-3051

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N157DM links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Rotax 582UL 132 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
Place
  • Easley, SC 39 aircraft registered in this town
  • South Carolina 3,111 aircraft registered

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The public federal record on N157DM, 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 Mcinnis David M, an individual, certificate issued March 28, 2007, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated May 2, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 582-537 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N157DM according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N157DM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data