Johnny Shane Brown RANS S-20
N5891E is a Johnny Shane Brown RANS S-20, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wichita Falls, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 18, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Johnny Shane Brown
- Model
- RANS S-20
- Serial number
- 02150034
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Ulpower UL350IS · 130 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2016
- Kit
- RANS DESIGNS INC S-20
- Transponder code
- A799D7 (octal 51714727)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 18, 2016
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01227820
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sansing Joel L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 331 Wigwam Trl
Wichita Falls, TX 76310-8360
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5891E, 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 Sansing Joel L, an individual, certificate issued April 1, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 18, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 02150034 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5891E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17271953, cancelled October 23, 2008). 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 N5891E: Accident on December 6, 2002 at Cartersville, GA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control, during the landing roll resulted in the on ground collision with a ravine.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL03LA024 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