Thorstad Vaughn A VALLEY WINGS LLC MER
N317KS is a Thorstad Vaughn A VALLEY WINGS LLC MER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Valley Wings LLC, an LLC in Fargo, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 12, 2019 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 14, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thorstad Vaughn A
- Model
- VALLEY WINGS LLC MER
- Serial number
- 95055
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A-65-8 · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A361C4 (octal 50660704)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 12, 2019
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 14, 2015
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01186401
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Valley Wings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1432 4Th St N
Fargo, ND 58102-2733
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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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N317KS, 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 Valley Wings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 12, 2019, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 95055 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N317KS 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 N317KS. 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 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
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