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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Ashley Ken VARI EZE
N88VE is an Ashley Ken VARI EZE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Extreme Adventures LLC, an LLC in Goleta, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 23, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 27, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ashley Ken
- Model
- VARI EZE
- Serial number
- 256
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-200A · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- AC1D5C (octal 53016534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 23, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 23, 2024
- 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 · June 27, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01002851
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Extreme Adventures LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7049 Armstrong Rd
Goleta, CA 93117-4035
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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 N88VE links to the rest of the register
- Ashley Ken 2 aircraft on the register
- Continental O-200A 297 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Extreme Adventures LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Goleta, CA 40 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,897 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-200A 10 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-200A 438 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N88VE.json.
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The public federal record on N88VE, 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 Extreme Adventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 23, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 27, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 256 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N88VE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gage J Marshell VARI-EZE (serial 65, cancelled December 2, 1996). 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 N88VE: Accident on April 7, 1996 at Chino, CA: serious 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: Gage VARI-EZE · operated under 091
the pilot's excessive initial climb attitude and his failure to maintain adequate airspeed. The pilot's diverted attention to the unlatched canopy warning light, and his lack of familiarity with the aircraft were factors.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data