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N540AR

David Hoefgen RV-10

Valid Wisconsin

N540AR is a David Hoefgen RV-10, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2014. It has 4 seats. It is registered to American Rentals 6 LLC, an LLC in Dousman, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 3, 2014 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 8, 2016.

Aircraft

Maker
David Hoefgen
Model
RV-10
Serial number
40459
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-A1A5 · 290 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2014
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-10
Transponder code
A6D7FC (octal 51553774)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 3, 2014
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · February 8, 2016
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01152315

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
American Rentals 6 LLC
Type
LLC
Address
PO Box 248
Dousman, WI 53118-0248

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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 N540AR, 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 American Rentals 6 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 3, 2014, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 8, 2016, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40459 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N540AR 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 N540AR. 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