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N284BC

Bow Casper RANS S-20 RAVEN

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIdaho

N284BC is a Bow Casper RANS S-20 RAVEN, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Elk River Aviation LLC, an LLC in Elk River, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 26, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 2, 2016.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bow Casper
Model
RANS S-20 RAVEN
Serial number
12140030
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
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (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
2016
Transponder code
A2DCF3 (octal 50556363)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 26, 2025
Expires
November 30, 2032
Last FAA action
November 26, 2025
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 2, 2016
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01211020

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Elk River Aviation 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
PO Box 5
Elk River, ID 83827-0005

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N284BC links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Elk River, ID 2 aircraft registered in this town
  • Idaho 4,200 aircraft registered

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The public federal record on N284BC, 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 Elk River Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 26, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 2, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12140030 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N284BC 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 N284BC. 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