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N215RD

Rans Designs Inc S-21LS OUTBOUND

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesUtah

N215RD is a Rans Designs Inc S-21LS OUTBOUND, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to West Desert Flight LLC, an LLC in Fairfield, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated March 8, 2018.

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Aircraft

Maker
Rans Designs Inc
Model
S-21LS OUTBOUND · all S-21LS OUTBOUNDs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Rans Designs Inc S-21 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
07160001
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2018
Transponder code
A1CD90 (octal 50346620)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
February 27, 2024
Expires
February 28, 2031
Last FAA action
February 27, 2024
Airworthiness
Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 8, 2018
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01268677

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
West Desert Flight LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
89 W Aviators Way
Fairfield, UT 84013-1338

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N215RD links to the rest of the register

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Place
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The public federal record on N215RD, 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 West Desert Flight LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 27, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Light sport certificate for airplane, dated March 8, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 07160001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N215RD 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N215RD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data