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N538L

Lovingood Johnny Ray TWINSTAR

Valid Missouri

N538L is a Lovingood Johnny Ray TWINSTAR, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 10, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
Lovingood Johnny Ray
Model
TWINSTAR
Serial number
011
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1998
Transponder code
A6CF1F (octal 51547437)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 16, 2008
Expires
April 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 10, 1998
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00433666

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Jessup Ervin L
Type
Individual
Address
331 Sandia Ln
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701-8260

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N538L, 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 Jessup Ervin L, an individual, certificate issued April 16, 2008, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 10, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 011 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N538L 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 N538L. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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