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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Rans Designs Inc S-7LS
N359BW is a Rans Designs Inc S-7LS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jacksonville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated June 8, 2015. 2 documents are on file: loan or lien (security agreement), bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Rans Designs Inc
- Model
- S-7LS · all S-7LSs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Rans Designs Inc S-7 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1214703
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (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
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A4066A (octal 51003152)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 8, 2015
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01173854
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Otts Monte L
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 139 County Road 3162
Jacksonville, TX 75766-0757
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Documents on file 2
Connections how N359BW links to the rest of the register
- Rans Designs Inc S-7 19 registered
- Rans Designs Inc 50 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912ULS series 3,383 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Jacksonville, TX 45 aircraft registered in this town
- Cherokee County · JSO
- Texas 29,943 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N359BW, 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 Otts Monte L, an individual, certificate issued April 1, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated June 8, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1214703 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N359BW according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 23, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N359BW. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data