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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Laroche Rick R RANS S-21
N969R is a Laroche Rick R RANS S-21, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 3, 2025.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 10:35 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Laroche Rick R
- Model
- RANS S-21
- Serial number
- 01210156
- 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 · Cont Motor IOX340 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Kit
- RANS DESIGNS INC S-21 OUTBOUND
- Transponder code
- AD7F0C (octal 53277414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 27, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 27, 2025
- 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 · September 3, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01503637
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Laroche Rick R
- 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
- 10950 Bighorn Dr
Reno, NV 89508-8206
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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 N969R links to the rest of the register
- Laroche Rick R 1 aircraft on the register
- Continental IOX340 series 58 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Reno, NV 665 aircraft registered in this town
- Reno/Tahoe International · RNO
- Reno/Stead Airport · RTS
- Spanish Springs Airport · N86
- Nevada 4,583 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Rivet, failed · 2025-05-16
- Where N969R is now · Last seen October 17 at 10:35 am.
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The public federal record on N969R, 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 Laroche Rick R, an individual, certificate issued June 27, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 3, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 01210156 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N969R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stemme Gmbh & Co S10-VT (serial 11-020, cancelled June 30, 2011). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N969R. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data