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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Joseph Donahue S-7 RANS
N4186J is a Joseph Donahue S-7 RANS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wessington Springs, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 18, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Joseph Donahue
- Model
- S-7 RANS
- Serial number
- 0309527
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A4F50B (octal 51172413)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 18, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 18, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01073235
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Luymes Kirk M
- 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
- PO Box 10
Wessington Springs, SD 57382-0010
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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 N4186J links to the rest of the register
- Joseph Donahue 1 aircraft on the register
- Wessington Springs, SD 6 aircraft registered in this town
- Wessington Springs Airport · 4X4
- South Dakota 2,273 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N4186J.json.
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The public federal record on N4186J, 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 Luymes Kirk M, an individual, certificate issued February 18, 2026, expires February 28, 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 0309527 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4186J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 2822525, cancelled February 13, 1998). 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 N4186J: Accident on June 6, 2026 at Wessington Springs, SD: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Joseph Donahue S-7 RANS · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data