The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily · Carbon Free Flight by 2050
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 2, 2026
N3006R

Rans Employee Flying Club RANS S-18 STINGER II

Valid Maine

N3006R is a Rans Employee Flying Club RANS S-18 STINGER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hope, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 27, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Rans Employee Flying Club
Model
RANS S-18 STINGER II
Serial number
0901021
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2002
Kit
RANS INC RANS S-18 STINGER
Transponder code
A3228C (octal 50621214)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 4, 2020
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 27, 2002
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00404127

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cranson Michael
Type
Individual
Address
118A Luce Ln
Hope, ME 04847-3213

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 2

1983-12-31Cessna T210F · Administratively canceled
1963-05-08Cessna 320A · exported to Brazil · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N3006R, 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 Cranson Michael, an individual, certificate issued June 4, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 27, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0901021 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3006R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna T210F (serial T210-0038, cancelled December 31, 1983); Cessna 320A (serial 320A0006, cancelled May 8, 1963). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N3006R: Accident on October 2, 1983 at Glasgow, VA: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ATL84FA005Accident on October 2, 1983 at Glasgow, VA: serious injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: T210-0038

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna T210F · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL84FA005 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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