Gerald E Kinman VANS RV-9A
N188GK is a Gerald E Kinman VANS RV-9A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Keller, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 27, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 25, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gerald E Kinman
- Model
- VANS RV-9A
- Serial number
- 91116
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-B1A · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-9A
- Transponder code
- A15F04 (octal 50257404)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 27, 2017
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). 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 25, 2018
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01257874
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kinman Gerald E
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 645 Keller Smithfield Rd
Keller, TX 76248-4229
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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 N188GK, 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 Kinman Gerald E, an individual, certificate issued July 27, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 25, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 91116 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N188GK 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N188GK. 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 September 30, 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