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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Ross James S SONEX
N40198 is a Ross James S SONEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kirkville, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 26, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 26, 2008.
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 9:48 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ross James S
- Model
- SONEX
- Serial number
- 0666
- 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 · Aerovee 2180 · 80 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- SONEX AIRCRAFT LLC SONEX
- Transponder code
- A4B40C (octal 51132014)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 26, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 25, 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 · April 26, 2008
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00261689
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilson Clayton A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1130 Taylor Rd
Kirkville, NY 13082-9433
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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
Connections how N40198 links to the rest of the register
- Ross James S 1 aircraft on the register
- AeroVee 2180 54 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Kirkville, NY 7 aircraft registered in this town
- New York 6,663 aircraft registered
- Where N40198 is now · Last seen October 15 at 9:48 am.
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The public federal record on N40198, 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 Wilson Clayton A, an individual, certificate issued December 26, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. 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 0666 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40198 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108 (serial 108-128, cancelled February 6, 2004). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N40198. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data