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N18VS

Lange Aviation Gmbh E1 ANTARES

Valid Oregon

N18VS is a Lange Aviation Gmbh E1 ANTARES, a glider with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Hillsboro, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2009 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated June 12, 2009.

Aircraft

Maker
Lange Aviation Gmbh
Model
E1 ANTARES
Serial number
47E42
Type
Glider
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
1
Year built
2008
Transponder code
A1403F (octal 50240077)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 20, 2009
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · June 12, 2009
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01032505

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Vangrunsven Richard E
Type
Individual
Address
9899 NW 316Th Pl
Hillsboro, OR 97124-8301

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N18VS, 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 Vangrunsven Richard E, an individual, certificate issued May 20, 2009, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition, dated June 12, 2009, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 47E42 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N18VS according to the deregistered file. [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 N18VS. 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 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