{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1994-12-09","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-02-14","city":"EAST WENATCHEE","country_code":"US","county_code":"007","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"09050","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"BOMBARDIER","engine_model":"ROTAX (ALL)","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-02-29","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-02-14","maker":"Smith Kenneth S","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SMITH KENNETH S","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05626AM","mode_s_code":"52557035","mode_s_hex":"AADE1D","model":"RANS S-6S","n_number":"N8KS","name":"LAVERGNE MATTHEW","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"TUCSON","damage":"DEST","date":"1992-05-31","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"LAX92LA225","probable_cause":"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.","registration":"N8KS","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on May 31, 1992 at Tucson, AZ: serious injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"RANTZ RANDY","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Lavergne Matthew, a co-owned, certificate issued February 14, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0594622 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N8KS: Accident on May 31, 1992 at Tucson, AZ: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"0594622","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"705 S KELLER AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00425092","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8KS","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"988025660"}