Spaulding Dave RANS S-7 COURIER
N15653 is a Spaulding Dave RANS S-7 COURIER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1993. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 2013 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 8, 1994. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Spaulding Dave
- Model
- RANS S-7 COURIER
- Serial number
- 0293105
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- A0E39C (octal 50161634)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 28, 2013
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 8, 1994
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00224672
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Turner Charles P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 50
Rhinelander, WI 54501
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Documents on file 1
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N15653, 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 Turner Charles P, an individual, certificate issued August 28, 2013, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 8, 1994, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0293105 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N15653 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 287305110, cancelled June 8, 1989). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 1, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N15653: Accident on October 23, 1987 at Colville, WA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091
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 September 30, 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