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N3165V

Rans Inc S-12XL

Valid Ohio

N3165V is a Rans Inc S-12XL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mc Clure, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2017 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 30, 2009.

Aircraft

Maker
Rans Inc
Model
S-12XL · all S-12XLs and related versions
Serial number
04284
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582UL · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2000
Transponder code
A36036 (octal 50660066)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 5, 2017
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · December 30, 2009
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00325289

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cousino Dennis R
Type
Individual
Address
4477 US Highway 6
Mc Clure, OH 43534-9545

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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N3165V, 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 Cousino Dennis R, an individual, certificate issued December 5, 2017, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 30, 2009, 9 years after the 2000 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 04284 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N3165V 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N3165V: Accident on December 16, 2018 at Mcclure, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

CEN19LA047Accident on December 16, 2018 at Mcclure, OH: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rans S12 · operated under 091

The cold seizure of the cylinder/piston due to the pilot’s failure to adequately warm the engine before takeoff, which resulted in a loss of engine power during a departure climb.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN19LA047 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