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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Zivko Aeronautics Inc EDGE 540
N721MD is a Zivko Aeronautics Inc EDGE 540, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2010. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Qualitair LLC Trustee, an LLC in Michelstadt. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 3, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Zivko Aeronautics Inc
- Model
- EDGE 540 · all EDGE 540s and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A carbon-fibre wing on a steel-tube fuselage under composite skins. This is how the Zivko Aeronautics Inc EDGE 540 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
- 0047V3
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-540 SER · 260 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A9A85A (octal 52324132)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 22, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 3, 2010
- FAA region
- EuropeanFAA region code 8 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01053151
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Qualitair LLC Trustee
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- Flugplatz Michelstadt
Mossauer Strasse 17
Michelstadt, 64720
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
Connections how N721MD links to the rest of the register
- Zivko Aeronautics Inc EDGE 540 28 registered
- Zivko Aeronautics Inc 28 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming AEIO-540 series 434 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Qualitair LLC Trustee 254 aircraft in the fleet
- Failure reports filed on the Zivko Aeronautics Inc EDGE 540 1 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-540 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-540 series 150 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N721MD, 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 Qualitair LLC Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued July 22, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated June 3, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0047V3 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N721MD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 58 (serial TH1753, cancelled June 20, 1996). 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 N721MD: Accident on November 19, 1995 at Cleveland, OH: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 58 · operated under 091
the pilot's improper IFR procedure, by failing to maintain a positive rate of climb (and terrain clearance) after takeoff. Factors relating to the accident were: darkness, and the lack of visual references over water and under overcast cloud conditions.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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