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N988W

Soucy Dana RANS S-12XL

Valid Kansas

N988W is a Soucy Dana RANS S-12XL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Quinter, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 17, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 24, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Soucy Dana
Model
RANS S-12XL
Serial number
03030965
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Kit
RANS INC S-12 XL AIRAILE
Transponder code
ADCAD0 (octal 53345320)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 17, 2023
Expires
October 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 24, 2004
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00115789

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Manhart Lawrence E
Type
Individual
Address
802 Hillside Dr
Quinter, KS 67752-9433

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N988W, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Manhart Lawrence E, an individual, certificate issued October 17, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 03030965 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N988W according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N988W. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data