Rettberg George K RANS S-7
N199KR is a Rettberg George K RANS S-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Murray, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 4, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 29, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rettberg George K
- Model
- RANS S-7
- Serial number
- 1088032
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A18A8B (octal 50305213)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 4, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 29, 1989
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00484421
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brandon David W
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 756 Peach Orchard Rd
Murray, KY 42071-7420
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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 N199KR, 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 Brandon David W, an individual, certificate issued October 4, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1088032 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N199KR 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]
1 NTSB record under N199KR: Accident on September 18, 1992 at Charleston, MO: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rettberg RANS S-7 · operated under 091
THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S POOR WEATHER EVALUATION WHICH RESULTED IN A TAKEOFF INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND A LOSS OF AIRPLANE CONTROL.
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- 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