Rans Employee Flying Club RANS S-7S COURIER
N42243 is a Rans Employee Flying Club RANS S-7S COURIER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Prestons Outfitters LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 17, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rans Employee Flying Club
- Model
- RANS S-7S COURIER
- Serial number
- 0203337
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Kit
- RANS INC RANS S7S
- Transponder code
- A5060D (octal 51203015)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 5, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 17, 2015
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00137609
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Prestons Outfitters LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Ste 49
Kalispell, MT 59901-5635
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
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The public federal record on N42243, 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 Prestons Outfitters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 5, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 17, 2015, 11 years after the 2004 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0203337 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N42243 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 4380, cancelled September 15, 2008); Piper J3C-65 (serial 14493, cancelled December 27, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N42243. 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