Kerns Thomas R PITTS KS-2B
N540TK is a Kerns Thomas R PITTS KS-2B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Eagan, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 21, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 16, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kerns Thomas R
- Model
- PITTS KS-2B
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A6D99F (octal 51554637)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 21, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 16, 2004
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00107129
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hickson Justin M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3907 Worchester Dr
Eagan, MN 55123-1654
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N540TK, 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 Hickson Justin M, an individual, certificate issued June 21, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 16, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N540TK 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 N540TK. 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