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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Rans RANS S6S
N538CH is a Rans RANS S6S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pine Grove, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 2019 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 10, 2007.
Where is it now Last seen Wednesday at 8:56 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Rans
- Model
- RANS S6S
- Serial number
- 06041584
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (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
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A6CE5F (octal 51547137)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 13, 2019
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 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 · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 10, 2007
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00405199
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Campbell Richard e
- 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
- 15500 Lupe Rd
Pine Grove, CA 95665-9509
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N538CH links to the rest of the register
- Rans 91 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 912ULS series 3,381 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Pine Grove, CA 9 aircraft registered in this town
- California 28,279 aircraft registered
- Where N538CH is now · Last seen Wednesday at 8:56 am.
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The public federal record on N538CH, 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 Campbell Richard e, an individual, certificate issued August 13, 2019, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 10, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 06041584 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N538CH 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 N538CH. 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