Smith David B RANS S7 COURIER
N8251B is a Smith David B RANS S7 COURIER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1994. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cotter, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2004 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 30, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith David B
- Model
- RANS S7 COURIER
- Serial number
- 1194142
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- AB45EB (octal 52642753)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 23, 2004
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 14, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 30, 2026
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00865422
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schroeder Dale R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 290 Valley Airport Pl
Cotter, AR 72626
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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 3
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The public federal record on N8251B, 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 Schroeder Dale R, an individual, certificate issued July 23, 2004, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 30, 2026, 32 years after the 1994 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 1194142 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8251B was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 288216182, cancelled April 18, 1991); Piper PA-28RT-201 (serial 28R-8018101, cancelled September 18, 1980); Cessna 172 (serial 36051, cancelled August 22, 1960). 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 N8251B: Accident on January 19, 1990 at Burbank, CA: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). 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: Piper PA-28-161 · operated under 091
POOR JUDGEMENT OF THE INSTRUCTOR PILOT (CFI) DUE TO HIS IMPAIRMENT FROM USE OF MARIJUANA, INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF THE FLIGHT BY THE CFI, AND HIS FAILURE TO ASSURE THAT ADEQUATE AIRSPEED WAS MAINTAINED, WHICH RESULTED IN AN INADVERTENT STALL. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE CFI'S INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PLANNING/PREPARATION, AND HIS FAILURE TO ASSURE THE AIRCRAFT WAS WITHIN ITS CERTIFIED GROSS WEIGHT LIMIT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX90FA070 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data