Aaron Appel VANS RV-10
N54MG is an Aaron Appel VANS RV-10, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2017. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Sacramento, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 24, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aaron Appel
- Model
- VANS RV-10
- Serial number
- 41688
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-D4A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2017
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-10
- Transponder code
- A6D6AD (octal 51553255)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 24, 2017
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01229453
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carley Kristopher
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1630 20Th St
Sacramento, CA 95811-6801 - Co-owners
- Briare Mike
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N54MG, 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 Carley Kristopher, a co-owned, certificate issued January 22, 2020, expires January 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 24, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 41688 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N54MG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Globemsky Michael RAVEN 229 (serial 4745, cancelled May 9, 2011). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N54MG: Accident on May 6, 2022 at Sausalito, CA: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Vans RV10 · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper decision to continue a visual flight rules flight into an area of limited visibility conditions, which resulted in spatial disorientation and a loss of airplane control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR22FA172 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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