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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Dieter Moenig CAVALON
N542DM is a Dieter Moenig CAVALON, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2017. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sunnyvale, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 18, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 1, 2017.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 1:01 pm.
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Flight history: where it flew in the last seven days · follow it on the live map
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dieter Moenig
- Model
- CAVALON
- Serial number
- V00266
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 914UL · 115 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2017
- Kit
- AUTOGYRO GMBH CAVALON
- Transponder code
- A6DFB1 (octal 51557661)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 18, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 1, 2017
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01233594
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Garner Nicholas
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1406 Floyd Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94087-3455
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N542DM links to the rest of the register
- Dieter Moenig 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 914UL 305 aircraft with this engine series · 115 hp
- Sunnyvale, CA 59 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,897 aircraft registered
- Where N542DM is now · Last seen yesterday at 1:01 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N542DM.json.
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The public federal record on N542DM, 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 Garner Nicholas, an individual, certificate issued September 18, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 1, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial V00266 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N542DM 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 N542DM. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data