Frost Dean C RANS S-12XL AIRAILE
N518D is a Frost Dean C RANS S-12XL AIRAILE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oro Valley, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 22, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Frost Dean C
- Model
- RANS S-12XL AIRAILE
- Serial number
- 05990881
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2002
- Kit
- RANS INC S-12 XL AIRAILE
- Transponder code
- A67F72 (octal 51477562)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 2008
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 22, 2009
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00914167
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Galvin James M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11441 N Ingot Loop
Oro Valley, AZ 85737-9450
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N518D, 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 Galvin James M, an individual, certificate issued May 8, 2008, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 22, 2009, 7 years after the 2002 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 05990881 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N518D 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]
1 NTSB record under N518D: Accident on June 8, 2024 at Picacho Peak, AZ: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Rans S-12XL Airaile · operated under 091
The pilot’s decision to conduct a low-altitude flight in mountainous terrain and his subsequent loss of airplane control after encountering mechanical turbulence, which resulted in an impact with the terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24FA185 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