Rans S-14
N981CS is a Rans S-14, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Guthrie, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated April 16, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rans
- Model
- S-14 · all S-14s and related versions
- Serial number
- A122184
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ADAF1E (octal 53327436)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 15, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · April 16, 2007
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00321779
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcbride Terry L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 225 S Choctaw Rd
Guthrie, OK 73044-7198
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N981CS, 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 Mcbride Terry L, an individual, certificate issued September 15, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A122184 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N981CS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna Aircraft Co J182T (serial J182T00011, cancelled April 5, 2017). 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 N981CS: Accident on July 1, 2025 at Guthrie, OK: fatal, substantial damage (1 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: Rans S-14 · operated under 091
On June 30, 2025, about 2054 central daylight time, a Rans S-14 airplane, N981CS, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Guthrie, Oklahoma. The non-certificated pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. A witness reported that he told the non-certificated pilot that he was not allowed to fly the airplane and that he was only supposed to taxi the airplane. About 2015 the non-certificated pilot began to practice taxiing the airplane on the private airstrip. The witnesses stated that about 39…
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- 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