Rand Kar X-AIR
N7046U is a Rand Kar X-AIR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Morganton, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 16, 2011 and expires on March 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 9, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rand Kar
- Model
- X-AIR
- Serial number
- 662
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A966A7 (octal 52263247)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 16, 2011
- Expires
- March 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · October 9, 2007
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00317659
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dupuis Joseph A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 600 Lenoir St
Morganton, NC 28655-3151
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N7046U, 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 Dupuis Joseph A, an individual, certificate issued March 16, 2011, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 9, 2007, 6 years after the 2001 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 662 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7046U was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Grumman US-2C (serial 133355, cancelled June 2, 2004); Boeing 727-22 (serial 18853, cancelled October 25, 1983). 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 N7046U: Accident on April 17, 2000 at Reno, NV: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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: Grumman US-2C · operated under PUBU
the flying pilot's failure to maintain directional control following a loss of engine power. Also causal was the failure of the flight crew to follow the published checklist and use the rudder assist system, and the decision not to abort the takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX00GA158 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
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