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N549J

Moon Thomas S RIDGE RUNNER III

Valid Montana

N549J is a Moon Thomas S RIDGE RUNNER III, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Butte, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Moon Thomas S
Model
RIDGE RUNNER III
Serial number
001
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Kit
ROCKY MOUNTAIN WINGS LLC RIDGE RUNNER III
Transponder code
A6FA23 (octal 51575043)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 19, 2026
Expires
February 28, 2033
Last FAA action
February 19, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01535731

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Moon Thomas S
Type
Individual
Address
115 Waldron Dr
Butte, MT 59701-7660

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

2020-05-29West Joe D QUAD CITY CHLNGR II · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N549J, 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 Moon Thomas S, an individual, certificate issued February 19, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N549J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: West Joe D QUAD CITY CHLNGR II (serial CH2 1002-2268, cancelled May 29, 2020). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N549J. 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