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Airbus A320-214
N538AV is an Airbus A320-214, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2012. It has 182 seats. It is registered to Wilmington Trust CO Trustee, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 13, 2012 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 15, 2012.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus
- Model
- A320-214 · all A320-214s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Aluminium fuselage and wings, composite tail. This is how the Airbus A320 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 5398
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cfm Intl CFM56-5B4/3 · 27,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 182
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A6CE39 (octal 51547071)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 13, 2012
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 15, 2012
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01112914
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilmington Trust CO Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- Attn: Corporate Trust Admin
1100 N Market St
Wilmington, DE 19890-1605
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N538AV links to the rest of the register
- Airbus A320 796 registered
- Airbus 1,511 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- CFM International CFM56-5B4/3 82 aircraft with this engine series · 27,000 lb thrust
- Type certificate A28NM · held by Airbus Sas
- Wilmington Trust CO Trustee 623 aircraft in the fleet
- Wilmington, DE 7,373 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus A320 658 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus A320 64,730 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus A320 429 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the CFM International CFM56-5B4/3 12 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the CFM International CFM56-5B4/3 195 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Engine, failed · 2019-03-13
- Report filed on this aircraft: Unknown, odor · 2018-12-11
- Report filed on this aircraft: Wheel, failed · 2017-01-19
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N538AV.json.
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The public federal record on N538AV, 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 Wilmington Trust CO Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued December 13, 2012, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated December 15, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5398 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N538AV 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N538AV. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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