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N540DR

Reed David F SKYBOLT

Valid Texas

N540DR is a Reed David F SKYBOLT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Toribio LLC, an LLC in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 1, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 7, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Reed David F
Model
SKYBOLT
Serial number
REED 1
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2004
Kit
STEEN AERO LAB SKYBOLT
Transponder code
A6D847 (octal 51554107)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 1, 2022
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
December 6, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · May 7, 2004
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00913807

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Toribio LLC
Type
LLC
Address
15464 Culebra Rd Lot 3
San Antonio, TX 78253-4606

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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 N540DR, 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 Toribio LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 1, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 7, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial REED 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N540DR 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 N540DR. 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