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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Shappley Arnold Jr RV-4
N186AS is a Shappley Arnold Jr RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cedar Park, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 22, 2016 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 23, 1987.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Shappley Arnold Jr
- Model
- RV-4
- Serial number
- 738
- 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 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A15707 (octal 50253407)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 22, 2016
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 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 · June 23, 1987
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00262115
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Joel L
- 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
- 501 Kodiak Trl
Cedar Park, TX 78613-4109
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N186AS links to the rest of the register
- Shappley Arnold Jr 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,311 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Cedar Park, TX 106 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,945 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N186AS.json.
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The public federal record on N186AS, 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 Smith Joel L, an individual, certificate issued February 22, 2016, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 738 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N186AS 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 N186AS: Accident on April 22, 2007 at Selma, AL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rans, Inc. RV-4 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing roll.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data