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N540LM

Van Grouw R A/Cantrell L LANCAIR L IV-P

N540LM is a Van Grouw R A/Cantrell L LANCAIR L IV-P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jersey City, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 27, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 30, 2000.

Aircraft

Maker
Van Grouw R A/Cantrell L
Model
LANCAIR L IV-P
Serial number
197
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · American S5-125 · 125 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1999
Kit
LANCAIR INTL INC LANCAIR IV P
Transponder code
A6D8F2 (octal 51554362)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 27, 2024
Expires
April 30, 2031
Last FAA action
April 27, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 30, 2000
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00705892

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mandel David
Type
Individual
Address
344 Grove St Ste 120
Jersey City, NJ 07302-5923

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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 N540LM, 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 Mandel David, an individual, certificate issued April 27, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 30, 2000, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 197 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N540LM 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 N540LM. 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