James R Keck RANS S-6
N173RM is a James R Keck RANS S-6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Batesville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 10, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 26, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- James R Keck
- Model
- RANS S-6
- Serial number
- 12981286
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912UL SERIES · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Kit
- RANS DESIGNS INC S-6ES
- Transponder code
- A125D5 (octal 50222725)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 10, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 26, 2018
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01259442
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schirmer Brandon
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 2667 Fm 187
Batesville, TX 78829-2922 - Co-owners
- Schirmer Ernest
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N173RM, 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 Schirmer Brandon, a co-owned, certificate issued December 10, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 26, 2018, 20 years after the 1998 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12981286 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N173RM according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N173RM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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