Zilinsky S.E. 5A
N8040Z is a Zilinsky S.E. 5A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Zilinsky Robert F, a partnership in Willowbrook, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 25, 2008 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 27, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Zilinsky
- Model
- S.E. 5A
- Serial number
- 072040
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- AAF329 (octal 52571451)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 25, 2008
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 27, 1981
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00000582
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Zilinsky Robert F
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 6350 Thurlow St
Willowbrook, IL 60527-6307 - Co-owners
- Zilinsky Mark
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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 N8040Z, 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 Zilinsky Robert F, a partnership, certificate issued November 25, 2008, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 27, 1981, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 072040 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8040Z 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 N8040Z: Accident on July 24, 1982 at Bolingbrook, IL: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Austin S.E. 5A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI82DA270 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