Vashon Aircraft RANGER R7
N166J is a Vashon Aircraft RANGER R7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Palmetto, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated July 14, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vashon Aircraft
- Model
- RANGER R7 · all RANGER R7s and related versions
- Serial number
- 10196
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-200-D · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A108C0 (octal 50204300)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 27, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · July 14, 2022
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01358999
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cropsey John W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 130 Riviera Dunes Way Apt 1202
Palmetto, FL 34221-7112
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N166J, 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 Cropsey John W, an individual, certificate issued February 27, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated July 14, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10196 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N166J was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-92A (serial 920166, cancelled January 18, 2013); Douglas DC3C-S1C3G (serial 12027, cancelled July 19, 1978). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N166J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data