Mcbride Richard L RANS S-7S COURIER
N523J is a Mcbride Richard L RANS S-7S COURIER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jonesborough, Tennessee. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 15, 2011. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcbride Richard L
- Model
- RANS S-7S COURIER
- Serial number
- 0906446
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912UL · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Kit
- RANS DESIGNS INC S-7S
- Transponder code
- A694DB (octal 51512333)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- June 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 15, 2011
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01062701
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 435 Armstrong Hill Rd
Jonesborough, TN 37659-4223
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Documents on file 1
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The public federal record on N523J, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 15, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0906446 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N523J according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 15, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N523J. 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