Messingschlager Keith RANS S-18
N7068V is a Messingschlager Keith RANS S-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Casa Grande, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2015 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated February 1, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Messingschlager Keith
- Model
- RANS S-18
- Serial number
- 11141964
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A96E5C (octal 52267134)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 2, 2015
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- December 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · February 1, 2009
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00370509
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kness Richard P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 586 N San Ricardo Trl
Casa Grande, AZ 85194-8518
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N7068V, 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 Kness Richard P, an individual, certificate issued March 2, 2015, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 1, 2009, 6 years after the 2003 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11141964 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7068V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20F (serial 22-1410, cancelled February 11, 1982). 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 N7068V. 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