Rans S-6ES
N16148 is a Rans S-6ES, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Alma, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 29, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated May 25, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rans
- Model
- S-6ES · all S-6ESs and related versions
- Serial number
- 11051714
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A0F86A (octal 50174152)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 29, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · May 25, 2007
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00352489
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- York Leighton E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 347 Lakeshore Dr
Alma, KS 66401-9760
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 N16148, 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 York Leighton E, an individual, certificate issued January 29, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated May 25, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11051714 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N16148 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson SR-8B (serial 9718, cancelled May 25, 1948). 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 N16148: Accident on April 24, 2024 at Emporia, KS: no 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: Rans S-6ES · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain control during the landing flare.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA166 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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