Shelton Joseph G S-7
N242K is a Shelton Joseph G S-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kingman, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 7, 2001 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 12, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Shelton Joseph G
- Model
- S-7
- Serial number
- 0101298
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2001
- Kit
- RANS INC S-7 COURIER
- Transponder code
- A2384E (octal 50434116)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 7, 2001
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 12, 2001
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00414034
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shelton Joseph G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4867 Christy Dr
Kingman, AZ 86401-1083
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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
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The public federal record on N242K, 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 Shelton Joseph G, an individual, certificate issued November 7, 2001, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 12, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0101298 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N242K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeromarine Aircraft Corp 39-B (serial 13, cancelled February 9, 1933). 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 N242K: Accident on February 19, 2022 at Buckeye, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Shelton Joseph G S-7 · operated under 091
The pilot’s exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack while on final approach to land which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR22LA105 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data