Rans S-6ELS
N281JS is a Rans S-6ELS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cambridge, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 26, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated June 10, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rans
- Model
- S-6ELS · all S-6ELSs and related versions
- Serial number
- 12091927-ES
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A2D28B (octal 50551213)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 26, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · June 10, 2010
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01053626
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Frederick M Bryant DBA
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5223 Bucktown Rd
Cambridge, MD 21613-3465 - Co-owners
- B&B Sport Aviation
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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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N281JS, 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 Frederick M Bryant DBA, an individual, certificate issued May 26, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development, dated June 10, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12091927-ES for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N281JS 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 N281JS. 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 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