Smith Ken Etal VAN'S RV-10
N52KS is a Smith Ken Etal VAN'S RV-10, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2010. It has 5 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Hingham, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2006 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 7, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith Ken Etal
- Model
- VAN'S RV-10
- Serial number
- 40025
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-C4B5 · 250 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2010
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-10
- Transponder code
- A68787 (octal 51503607)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2006
- Expires
- February 28, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 7, 2010
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00227409
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dawson-Townsend Timothy M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 373 Main St
Hingham, MA 02043-2826 - Co-owners
- Nielsen Anton I / Smith Thomas A
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N52KS, 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 Dawson-Townsend Timothy M, a co-owned, certificate issued February 28, 2006, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 7, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40025 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N52KS according to the deregistered file. [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 N52KS. 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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data