Embraer EMB-135ER
N538M is an Embraer EMB-135ER, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 2001. It has 37 seats. It is registered to Menards INC, a corporation in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 6, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 22, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Embraer
- Model
- EMB-135ER · all EMB-135ERs and related versions
- Serial number
- 145467
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbojet, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc AE 3007A1P · 8,338 lb thrust
- Seats
- 37
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A6CF38 (octal 51547470)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 6, 2017
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · September 22, 2001
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00773847
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Menards INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5101 Menard Dr
Eau Claire, WI 54703-9604
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N538M, 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 Menards INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 6, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated September 22, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 145467 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N538M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed VEGA 5C (serial 107, cancelled November 4, 1931). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N538M. 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 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