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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Ronald E Sanches BADLANDS TRAVELER
N4848S is a Ronald E Sanches BADLANDS TRAVELER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Willis, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 20, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 14, 2025.
Where is it now Last seen October 27 at 2:46 pm.
Last seen October 27 at 2:46 pm. Checking whether it is in the air right now…
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ronald E Sanches
- Model
- BADLANDS TRAVELER
- Serial number
- BLAKT007
- 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 · Cont IOX370 SERIES · 205 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Kit
- BADLANDS STOL AIRCRAFT LLC TRAVELER
- Transponder code
- A5FAF6 (octal 51375366)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 20, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 20, 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 · November 14, 2025
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01513703
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sanches Ronald e
- 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
- 11626 Blackland Rd
Willis, TX 77318-2304
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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 N4848S links to the rest of the register
- Ronald E Sanches 1 aircraft on the register
- Continental IOX370 series 29 aircraft with this engine series · 205 hp
- Willis, TX 45 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
- Where N4848S is now · Last seen October 27 at 2:46 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N4848S.json.
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The public federal record on N4848S, 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 Sanches Ronald e, an individual, certificate issued August 20, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 14, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BLAKT007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4848S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robbins NOTHING SPECIAL-1 (serial CR-2, cancelled December 31, 1980). 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 N4848S. 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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data