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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Davis 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Davis Sidney E
- Model
- RANS S-6S
- Serial number
- 11971186
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912UL · 80 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1999
- Kit
- RANS INC S-6S
- Transponder code
- AAFF80 (octal 52577600)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 21, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 21, 2024
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 15, 2026
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00183657
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Olivent Jody L
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N8079Q links to the rest of the register
- Davis Sidney E 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 912UL 134 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Sweetwater, TN 13 aircraft registered in this town
- Tennessee 6,535 aircraft registered
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data