Piper PA-22-150
N4540A is a Piper PA-22-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 12, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-22-150 · all PA-22-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 22-3849
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- A58351 (octal 51301521)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 12, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 12, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00762854
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Beard Ryan Christopher
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1726 Cool Water Cres N
Oconomowoc, WI 53066-4869 - Co-owners
- Beard Michelle Marie
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 N4540A, 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 Beard Ryan Christopher, a co-owned, certificate issued September 12, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22-3849 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4540A 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]
1 NTSB record under N4540A: Accident on July 24, 1999 at Limon, CO: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-22-150 · operated under 091
The pilot's selection of the wrong runway for takeoff. Factors were a direct tailwind and high density altitude that deteriorated the airplane's climb capability, and unsuitable terrain on which to make a forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN99LA128 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data