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Vashon Aircraft RANGER R7
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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Vashon Aircraft
- Model
- RANGER R7 · all RANGER R7s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Vashon Aircraft RANGER R7 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 10222
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-200-D · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A15F3D (octal 50257475)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 31, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 31, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 21, 2023
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01429877
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elk Creek Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N188JS links to the rest of the register
- Vashon Aircraft RANGER R7 135 registered
- Vashon Aircraft 135 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental O-200-D 210 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Elk Creek Aviation LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Fort Smith, AR 74 aircraft registered in this town
- Fort Smith Regional · FSM
- Arkansas 3,495 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-200-D 2 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Stringer, corroded · 2005-07-19
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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.
Valid registration to Elk Creek Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 31, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated December 21, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10222 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
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]
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 N188JS. 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 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 October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data