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N166LS

Rans Aircraft S12XL

Valid Illinois

N166LS is a Rans Aircraft S12XL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cicero, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 23, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Rans Aircraft
Model
S12XL
Serial number
02020942
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2005
Transponder code
A10903 (octal 50204403)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 13, 2015
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · October 23, 2007
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00378699

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gonzalez Jorge
Type
Individual
Address
3514 S Central Ave
Cicero, IL 60804-4352

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N166LS, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Gonzalez Jorge, an individual, certificate issued April 13, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 23, 2007, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 02020942 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N166LS according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N166LS: Accident on March 21, 2008 at Wauchula, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

NYC08CA147Accident on March 21, 2008 at Wauchula, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rans, Inc. S12XL · operated under 091

The malfunction of the fuel line, which resulted in a loss of engine power due to fuel starvation.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC08CA147 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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