Rans S-12XL
N3285J is a Rans S-12XL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Churchville, Maryland. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 20, 2006. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rans
- Model
- S-12XL · all S-12XLs and related versions
- Serial number
- 08950649
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A38F18 (octal 50707430)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · December 20, 2006
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00271489
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3538 Aldino Rd Ste 13
Churchville, MD 21028-1922
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3285J, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [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 08950649 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3285J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150G (serial 15065985, cancelled July 14, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 15, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3285J. 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