Smith Kenneth S RANS S-6S
N8KS is a Smith Kenneth S RANS S-6S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in East Wenatchee, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 9, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith Kenneth S
- Model
- RANS S-6S
- Serial number
- 0594622
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AADE1D (octal 52557035)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 14, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 14, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 9, 1994
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00425092
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lavergne Matthew
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 705 S Keller Ave
East Wenatchee, WA 98802-5660 - Co-owners
- Rantz Randy
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8KS, 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 Lavergne Matthew, a co-owned, certificate issued February 14, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0594622 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8KS was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Schempp-Hirth VENTUS A/16.6 (serial 325, cancelled June 19, 1992); Schleicher ASW-20 (serial 20428, cancelled August 10, 1981); Smith Ken EIPPER MX II (serial 1658, cancelled date not given). 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 N8KS: Accident on May 31, 1992 at Tucson, AZ: serious injuries, destroyed. 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schempp-Hirth VENTUS A/16.6 · operated under 091
THE INFLIGHT DISCONNECTION OF THE RIGHT AILERON 'OTELLIER COUPLER FITTING DUE TO LUBRICANTS ON THE COUPLER SLIDE LOCK PLATE, AND THE FAILURE OF THE GLIDER MANUFACTURER TO INCLUDE APPROPRIATE PRECAUTIONARY INFORMATION IN THE MAINTENANCE AND/OR FLIGHT MANUAL. FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE FAILURE OF THE GLIDER AND FITTING MANUFACTURERS TO MANDATE FAIL/SAFE DEVICES FOR THE COUPLER FITTING, AND THE DESIGN OF THE GLIDER REGARDING THE FACILITATION OF THE COUPLER CONNECTIONS DURING THE GLIDER ASSEMBLY PROCESS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX92LA225 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