Vining John K SD-1 MINISPORT
N72DX is a Vining John K SD-1 MINISPORT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2017. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2017 and expires on March 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 2, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vining John K
- Model
- SD-1 MINISPORT
- Serial number
- 0194
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Hirth F-23 · 50 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A9A194 (octal 52320624)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 2, 2017
- Expires
- March 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 2, 2020
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01244591
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vining John K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 18359 Coshocton Rd
Mount Vernon, OH 43050-8266
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N72DX, 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 Vining John K, an individual, certificate issued March 2, 2017, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 2, 2020, 3 years after the 2017 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 0194 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N72DX 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]
1 NTSB record under N72DX: Accident on June 23, 2021 at Butler, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Vining SD1 MINISPORT · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain adequate airspeed following a partial loss of engine power, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and impact with terrain. The reason for the partial loss of engine power could not be determined based on available information.
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data