David Michael Tranquilla RANS COURIER S7S
N542TW is a David Michael Tranquilla RANS COURIER S7S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Truckee, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 21, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 6, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- David Michael Tranquilla
- Model
- RANS COURIER S7S
- Serial number
- 0216628
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Kit
- RANS DESIGNS INC S-7S COURIER
- Transponder code
- A6E118 (octal 51560430)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 21, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 6, 2021
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01337265
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tranquilla David Michael
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 15719 Donnington Ln
Truckee, CA 96161-1231
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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 2
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The public federal record on N542TW, 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 Tranquilla David Michael, an individual, certificate issued April 21, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 6, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0216628 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N542TW was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Lockheed 1329-23E (serial 5113, cancelled April 29, 2009); Piper PA-42 (serial 428001052, cancelled date not given). 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 N542TW: Accident on June 28, 1985 at Charlotte, NC: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-42 · operated under 135
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL85FA197 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