Rans S-12 AIRAILE
N2757A is a Rans S-12 AIRAILE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Randall, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 9, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rans
- Model
- S-12 AIRAILE · all S-12 AIRAILEs and related versions
- Serial number
- 0494491
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A2BC5D (octal 50536135)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 5, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · November 9, 2007
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00403879
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kadel David A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3035 Highway 28
Randall, KS 66963-4028
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2757A, 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 Kadel David A, an individual, certificate issued December 5, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0494491 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2757A was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Fairchild SA227-AC (serial AC773B, cancelled April 11, 1991); Cessna 402C (serial 402C0275, cancelled July 28, 1980); Beech 36 (serial E-174, cancelled October 21, 1969). 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 N2757A: Accident on August 25, 2025 at Concordia, KS: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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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-12 Airaile · operated under 091
On August 24, 2025, about 1926 central daylight time, a Rans S-12 Airaile airplane, N2757A, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Concordia, Kansas. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. A witness reported that airplane appeared to have “trouble gaining altitude” and was alternating between a slight climb and descent as it flew to the east. The airplane then turned and was flying to the south when it entered a nose-down spiral descent to the ground. The same witness captured a c…
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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 August 27, 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