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A Vashon Aircraft RANGER R7, the same model family as N369VR
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N369VR

Vashon Aircraft RANGER R7

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIllinois

N369VR is a Vashon Aircraft RANGER R7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University, a government body in Murphysboro, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated February 19, 2024.

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Aircraft

Maker
Vashon Aircraft
Model
RANGER R7 · all RANGER R7s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Vashon Aircraft RANGER R7 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
10225
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
Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-200-D · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2024
Transponder code
A42FA6 (octal 51027646)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
April 23, 2025
Expires
April 30, 2032
Last FAA action
April 23, 2025
Airworthiness
Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 19, 2024
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01435597

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
Type
GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
Transportation Education Center
545 N Airport Rd Rm 286Q
Murphysboro, IL 62966-6291
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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N369VR links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Murphysboro, IL 48 aircraft registered in this town
  • Illinois 8,060 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N369VR, 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 Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University, a government body, certificate issued April 23, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Light sport certificate for airplane, dated February 19, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10225 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N369VR 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 N369VR. 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 November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data