Ashley 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ashley Ken
- Model
- VARI EZE
- Serial number
- 256
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-200A · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- AC1D5C (octal 53016534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 23, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 23, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 27, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01002851
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Extreme Adventures LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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
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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]
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.
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 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