Davis Sidney E RANS S-6S
N8079Q is a Davis Sidney E RANS S-6S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sweetwater, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 21, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 15, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Davis Sidney E
- Model
- RANS S-6S
- Serial number
- 11971186
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912UL · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1999
- Kit
- RANS INC S-6S
- Transponder code
- AAFF80 (octal 52577600)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 21, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 21, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 15, 2026
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00183657
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Olivent Jody L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 705 Shelton Grove Rd
Sweetwater, TN 37874-3440
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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
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The public federal record on N8079Q, 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 Olivent Jody L, an individual, certificate issued May 21, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 15, 2026, 27 years after the 1999 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 11971186 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8079Q was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 1324, cancelled August 13, 1991). 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 N8079Q: Accident on March 16, 1990 at Paso Robles, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson R22 · operated under 091
THE DUAL STUDENT PILOT FAILED TO MAINTAIN PROPER ROTOR/ENGINE POWER AND TO RELINQUISH THE THROTTLE CONTROL WHEN THE CFI ATTEMPTED TO REDUCE THE POWER.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX90LA119 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