Wessel Marvin E Jr VORTEX
N546SW is a Wessel Marvin E Jr VORTEX, a rotorcraft with a two-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2007. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Camp Verde, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 5, 2007 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 8, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Wessel Marvin E Jr
- Model
- VORTEX
- Serial number
- MEW061
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 618 · 75 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A6EFDB (octal 51567733)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 5, 2007
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 8, 2007
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00302759
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wessel Marvin E JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2395 N Beech Blvd
Camp Verde, AZ 86322-7572
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N546SW, 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 Wessel Marvin E JR, an individual, certificate issued March 5, 2007, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 8, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial MEW061 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N546SW 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 N546SW: Accident on September 1, 2007 at Mesa, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Wessel Vortex · operated under 091
Failure of the muffler's mounting strap and subsequent loss of engine power due to propeller blade separation during cruise flight. A contributing factor was the unsuitable terrain for a forced landing.
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data