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N540SG

Zivko Aeronautics Inc EDGE 540

Valid Alaska

N540SG is a Zivko Aeronautics Inc EDGE 540, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Talkeetna, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 25, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Zivko Aeronautics Inc
Model
EDGE 540 · all EDGE 540s and related versions
Serial number
0035
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
Seats
1
Year built
2005
Transponder code
A6D983 (octal 51554603)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 20, 2022
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
June 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · November 25, 2005
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00211849

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Burns Melissa
Type
Co-owned
Address
PO Box 942
Talkeetna, AK 99676-0942
Co-owners
Burns Trent

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N540SG, 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 Burns Melissa, a co-owned, certificate issued December 20, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated November 25, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0035 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N540SG 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 N540SG. 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