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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Staudacher Mark W VJ-22MS SPORTSMAN
N122MS is a Staudacher Mark W VJ-22MS SPORTSMAN, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bay City, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 17, 2023.
Where is it now Last seen Tuesday at 1:44 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Staudacher Mark W
- Model
- VJ-22MS SPORTSMAN
- Serial number
- 845
- 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 · Cont Motor O-200-B · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A05C44 (octal 50056104)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 16, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 17, 2023
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01386492
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Staudacher Mark W
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 327 River Rd
Bay City, MI 48706-1447
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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
Connections how N122MS links to the rest of the register
- Staudacher Mark W 2 aircraft on the register
- Continental O-200-B 3 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Bay City, MI 51 aircraft registered in this town
- James Clements Municipal · 3CM
- Michigan 7,231 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-200-B 9 airworthiness directives
- Where N122MS is now · Last seen Tuesday at 1:44 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N122MS.json.
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The public federal record on N122MS, 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 Staudacher Mark W, an individual, certificate issued December 16, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 17, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 845 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N122MS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sparks Manuel KR-2 (serial MS-2, cancelled August 28, 2014). 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 N122MS: Accident on July 7, 2001 at San Diego, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sparks KR-2 · operated under 091
Failure of the pilot to maintain directional control during landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data