Rans S6-S COYOTE II
N9438S is a Rans S6-S COYOTE II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pinconning, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2007 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 26, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rans
- Model
- S6-S COYOTE II · all S6-S COYOTE IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- 12061787
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912S · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- AD1BCE (octal 53215716)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 23, 2007
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · October 26, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00379229
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pugh David J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1636 E Kitchen Rd
Pinconning, MI 48650-7480
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9438S, 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 Pugh David J, an individual, certificate issued July 23, 2007, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 26, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12061787 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9438S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 35-C33 (serial CD-1004, cancelled December 30, 2004). 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 N9438S: Accident on October 19, 2003 at Mesquite, NV: fatal, destroyed (2 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 35-C33 · operated under 091
fuel starvation due to the pilot's inadequate in-flight planning and fuel system management, and failure to select a fuel tank containing fuel. Also causal was the certified flight instructor's inadequate supervision.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX04FA019 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