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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Shanks Theodore E VANS RV-4
N30TS is a Shanks Theodore E VANS RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1994. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Av8Rs LLC, an LLC in Gig Harbor, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 13, 1995.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Shanks Theodore E
- Model
- VANS RV-4
- Serial number
- 156
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A31EB3 (octal 50617263)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 8, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 8, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 13, 1995
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00854661
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Av8Rs 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
- 5121 105Th Avenue Ct NW
Gig Harbor, WA 98335-5938
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N30TS links to the rest of the register
- Shanks Theodore E 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,305 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Av8Rs LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to May 11, 2027
- Gig Harbor, WA 155 aircraft registered in this town
- Washington 10,664 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N30TS, 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 Av8Rs LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 8, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 13, 1995, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 156 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N30TS according to the deregistered file. [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 N30TS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data