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N188JS

Vashon Aircraft RANGER R7

Valid Arkansas

N188JS is a Vashon Aircraft RANGER R7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Elk Creek Aviation LLC, an LLC in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 31, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated December 21, 2023.

Aircraft

Maker
Vashon Aircraft
Model
RANGER R7 · all RANGER R7s and related versions
Serial number
10222
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-200-D · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2023
Transponder code
A15F3D (octal 50257475)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 31, 2024
Expires
May 31, 2031
Last FAA action
May 31, 2024
Airworthiness
Light sport · Airplane · December 21, 2023
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01429877

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Elk Creek Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
8118 Rome Way
Fort Smith, AR 72916-8704

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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

2016-01-20Gulfstream American Corp. G-1159 · Second notice for registration renewal

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N188JS, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Elk Creek Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 31, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Light sport certificate for airplane, dated December 21, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10222 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N188JS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gulfstream American Corp. G-1159 (serial 29, cancelled January 20, 2016). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N188JS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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