Airbus A321-271N
N542VL is an Airbus A321-271N, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2019. It has 222 seats. It is registered to Wilmington Trust CO Trustee, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 30, 2019.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus
- Model
- A321-271N · all A321-271Ns and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Aluminium fuselage and wings, composite tail. This is how the Airbus A321 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 8603
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Iae PW1133G-JM · 33,110 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 222
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- A6E140 (octal 51560500)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2019
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 30, 2019
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01293224
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilmington Trust CO Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- Rodney Square N
1100 N Market St
Wilmington, DE 19890-1100
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N542VL links to the rest of the register
- Airbus A321 936 registered
- Airbus 1,504 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- International Aero Engines PW1133G-JM 163 aircraft with this engine series · 33,110 lb thrust
- Type certificate A28NM · held by Airbus Sas
- Wilmington Trust CO Trustee 625 aircraft in the fleet
- Wilmington, DE 7,379 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,969 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus A321 502 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus A321 39,560 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus A321 294 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the International Aero Engines PW1133G-JM 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the International Aero Engines PW1133G-JM 188 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N542VL, 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 Wilmington Trust CO Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued March 28, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated March 30, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8603 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N542VL 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]
1 NTSB record under N542VL: Incident on September 12, 2026 at Parque Industrial Mazatlán, OF: no injuries. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Airbus A321-271N · operated under NUSC
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
