Vashon Aircraft RANGER R7
N417VR is a Vashon Aircraft RANGER R7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Ckd Engineering LLC DBA, an LLC in Woodinville, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Where is it now Last seen October 9 at 10:46 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Vashon Aircraft
- Model
- RANGER R7 · all RANGER R7s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe 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
- 10264
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4F00C (octal 51170014)
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 1, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01550795
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ckd Engineering LLC DBA
- 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
- 19825 141St Pl NE
Woodinville, WA 98072-8432 - Co-owners
- Vashion Aircraft
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 N417VR links to the rest of the register
- Vashon Aircraft RANGER R7 133 registered
- Vashon Aircraft 133 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Ckd Engineering LLC DBA 16 aircraft in the fleet
- Woodinville, WA 73 aircraft registered in this town
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
- Where N417VR is now · Last seen October 9 at 10:46 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N417VR.json.
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The public federal record on N417VR, 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 Ckd Engineering LLC DBA, an LLC, certificate issued April 1, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10264 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N417VR was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Czech Aircraft Works Spol Sro SPORTCRUISER (serial 08SC232, cancelled February 25, 2011). 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 N417VR: Accident on April 11, 2010 at Millbrook, NY: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Czech Aircraft Works Spol Sro SPORTCRUISER · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control after takeoff while he was distracted by trying to hold shut the unlocked cockpit canopy. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's failure to lock the canopy prior to takeoff, and the inadequate guidance in the Pilot Operating Handbook regarding canopy locking procedures.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
