Culpepper Gerald M RANS S-12
N80077 is a Culpepper Gerald M RANS S-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1993. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Whittemore, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 2016 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 18, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Culpepper Gerald M
- Model
- RANS S-12
- Serial number
- 0193373
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- AAE54A (octal 52562512)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 19, 2016
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 18, 2004
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00063739
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hottois Scott A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6672 Miller Rd
Whittemore, MI 48770-9736
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 3
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N80077, 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 Hottois Scott A, an individual, certificate issued May 19, 2016, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 18, 2004, 11 years after the 1993 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 0193373 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N80077 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2B (serial 9, cancelled February 17, 2000); Cessna 172M (serial 17266354, cancelled September 20, 1991); Culver V (serial V-118, cancelled November 15, 1949). 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]
2 NTSB records under N80077: Accident on July 5, 1997 at Hobbs, NM: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Accident on May 17, 1991 at Wray, CO: fatal, substantial damage (1 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schempp-Hirth VENTUS-2B · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to select an off-field landing site with sufficient time/altitude to perform the landing which led to his failure to maintain airspeed. A factor was the unfavorable wind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW97FA249 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172M · operated under 091
THE PILOT INTENTIONALLY BUZZING AND FAILURE TO MAINTAIN PROPER ALTITUDE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN91FA071 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