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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026Harris William Paul BRC 540C
N540CX is a Harris William Paul BRC 540C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Piasecki Aircraft CORP, a corporation in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 12, 2006.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Harris William Paul
- Model
- BRC 540C
- Serial number
- 376
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Subaru ALL MDLS A/B · 400 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A6D834 (octal 51554064)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2006
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 12, 2006
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00865732
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Piasecki Aircraft CORP
- 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
- 110 e Stewart Huston Dr
Coatesville, PA 19320-1646
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N540CX links to the rest of the register
- Harris William Paul 1 aircraft on the register
- Subaru (converted) ALL MDLS A/B 349 aircraft with this engine series · 400 hp
- Piasecki Aircraft CORP 10 aircraft in the fleet
- Coatesville, PA 24 aircraft registered in this town
- Chester County G O Carlson · MQS
- Pennsylvania 6,195 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N540CX.json.
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The public federal record on N540CX, 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 Piasecki Aircraft CORP, a corporation, certificate issued January 27, 2006, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 12, 2006, 5 years after the 2001 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 376 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N540CX 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 N540CX: Accident on October 20, 2003 at Leesburg, VA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Harris BRC 540C · operated under 091
The pilot in command's failure to maintain directional control and his inadvertent activation of the right rudder pedal.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data