Rans Designs Inc S-7LS
N78VA is a Rans Designs Inc S-7LS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Potterville, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2016 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated March 12, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rans Designs Inc
- Model
- S-7LS · all S-7LSs and related versions
- Serial number
- 0415615
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 914UL · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- AA9009 (octal 52510011)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 2016
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · March 12, 2016
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01183663
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sprague David
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6255 Swan Dr
Potterville, MI 48876-9781
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N78VA, 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 Sprague David, an individual, certificate issued May 13, 2016, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated March 12, 2016, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0415615 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78VA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dehavilland BEAVER U-6A (serial 55-4595, cancelled March 7, 2005). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N78VA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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