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Rans S12
N4483A is a Rans S12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1994. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mason City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2019 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport previously certificated, dated July 27, 2015.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Rans
- Model
- S12 · all S12s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium tube and fabricAn ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth or fabric, the construction of weight-shift trikes and the lightest two-seaters. An ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth. This is how the Rans S-12 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
- 049607101
- 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
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A56B17 (octal 51265427)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 30, 2019
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Operating light-sport previously certificatedFAA certificate purpose code 8C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 27, 2015
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00438439
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Midtgaard Michael A
- 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
- 1019 6Th St SE
Mason City, IA 50401-5301
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N4483A links to the rest of the register
- Rans S-12 31 registered
- Rans 91 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912ULS series 3,381 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Mason City, IA 39 aircraft registered in this town
- Mason City Municipal · MCW
- Iowa 4,513 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N4483A, 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 Midtgaard Michael A, an individual, certificate issued September 30, 2019, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 27, 2015, 21 years after the 1994 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 049607101 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4483A according to the deregistered file. [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 N4483A. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data