Grumman SCAN TYPE 30
N540GW is a Grumman SCAN TYPE 30, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Riverdale, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2002 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 13, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- SCAN TYPE 30 · all SCAN TYPE 30s and related versions
- Serial number
- 3
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming R680E SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 131 mph
- Transponder code
- A6D897 (octal 51554227)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 3, 2002
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · November 13, 1959
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00821506
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Taylor Steven M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11711 W Olive Rd
Riverdale, MI 48877-9719
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.
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The public federal record on N540GW, 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 Taylor Steven M, an individual, certificate issued December 3, 2002, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 13, 1959, 5 years after the 1954 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 3 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N540GW 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N540GW. 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