Vashon Aircraft RANGER R7
N1974A is a Vashon Aircraft RANGER R7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Summit, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated January 26, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vashon Aircraft
- Model
- RANGER R7 · all RANGER R7s and related versions
- Serial number
- 10171
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-200-D · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- A18511 (octal 50302421)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 12, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · January 26, 2021
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01324721
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Branchflower John L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9 Valley View Ave
Summit, NJ 07901-2311
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N1974A, 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 Branchflower John L, an individual, certificate issued August 12, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated January 26, 2021, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10171 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1974A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-20 (serial 20883, cancelled April 6, 1993). 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]
1 NTSB record under N1974A: Accident on August 16, 1992 at Fort Bidwell, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-20-135 · operated under 091
AN INADVERTENT STALL WHILE MANEUVERING. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS PILOT'S DIVERTED ATTENTION.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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