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N71CJ

Curtis W Burt RANS S-7S

N71CJ is a Curtis W Burt RANS S-7S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 2013 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 12, 2013.

Aircraft

Maker
Curtis W Burt
Model
RANS S-7S
Serial number
0710545
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2013
Kit
RANS DESIGNS INC RANS S-7S
Transponder code
A979EF (octal 52274757)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 17, 2013
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · February 12, 2013
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01116177

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Burt Curtis W
Type
Individual
Address
27338 Memorial Rd
Hot Springs, SD 57747-7509

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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

2005-03-21Grumman G-159 · Valid registration
1984-09-25Grumman G-159 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N71CJ, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Burt Curtis W, an individual, certificate issued January 17, 2013, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 12, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0710545 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N71CJ was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Grumman G-159 (serial 107, cancelled March 21, 2005); Grumman G-159 (serial 163, cancelled September 25, 1984). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N71CJ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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