Mcfarland Wm H RANS S6S
N434WM is a Mcfarland Wm H RANS S6S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ortonville, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 26, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 20, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcfarland Wm H
- Model
- RANS S6S
- Serial number
- 07001379S
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- RANS INC S-6S
- Transponder code
- A533FA (octal 51231772)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 26, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 20, 2001
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00883775
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Edmunds Robert L JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2255 Granger Rd
Ortonville, MI 48462-9201
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N434WM, 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 Edmunds Robert L JR, an individual, certificate issued January 26, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 07001379S for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N434WM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcfarland William H KOLB FIRESTAR II (serial FS569, cancelled April 12, 1997). 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]
1 NTSB record under N434WM: Accident on July 30, 2011 at Huntington, WV: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mcfarland Wm H RANS S6S · operated under 091
The failure of both pilots to maintain proper pitch control during takeoff. Contributing to the accident was both pilots' inexperience in the airplane make/model.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA11CA432 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data