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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Rans Designs Inc S-7LS
N544RS is a Rans Designs Inc S-7LS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Rls Rental CO INC DBA, a corporation in Joplin, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2008 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated December 21, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Rans Designs Inc
- Model
- S-7LS · all S-7LSs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Rans Designs Inc S-7 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
- 0907482
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A6E850 (octal 51564120)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 9, 2008
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 21, 2007
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00418259
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rls Rental CO INC DBA
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 1446 Pmb 400
Joplin, MO 64802-1446 - Co-owners
- Mizzou Aviation
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N544RS links to the rest of the register
- Rans Designs Inc S-7 19 registered
- Rans Designs Inc 50 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912ULS series 3,383 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Rls Rental CO INC DBA 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Joplin, MO 54 aircraft registered in this town
- Joplin Regional · JLN
- Missouri 5,813 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N544RS, 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 Rls Rental CO INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued February 9, 2008, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated December 21, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0907482 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N544RS 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 N544RS: Accident on August 21, 2011 at Joplin, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rans Designs INC S-7LS · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during the landing.
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- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data