{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2020-07-12","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"sustainable","cert_issue_date":"","city":"CHILMARK","country_code":"US","county_code":"007","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-22"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":1,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"electric","kit_mfr":"SONEX AIRCRAFT LLC","kit_model":"XENOS","last_action_date":"2026-08-31","maker":"Devault Gabriel V","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DEVAULT GABRIEL V","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05639BM","mode_s_code":"51554144","mode_s_hex":"A6D864","model":"SONEX XENOS","n_number":"N540EV","name":"SALE REPORTED","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N540EV is a Devault Gabriel V SONEX XENOS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor powered by electric motors, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Chilmark, Massachusetts. The FAA lists the registration as \"sale reported\". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 12, 2020. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Sale reported\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 12, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 059 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N540EV according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 22, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N540EV. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"New England","region_code":"E","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"059","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MA","status":"Sale reported","status_code":"7","status_short":"Sale reported","street":"290 SOUTH RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Electric","type_engine_code":"10","unique_id":"01317518","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N540EV","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2020,"zip":"025352438"}