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N8251B

Smith David B RANS S7 COURIER

Valid Arkansas

N8251B is a Smith David B RANS S7 COURIER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1994. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cotter, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2004 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 30, 2026.

Aircraft

Maker
Smith David B
Model
RANS S7 COURIER
Serial number
1194142
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
Seats
2
Year built
1994
Transponder code
AB45EB (octal 52642753)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 23, 2004
Expires
November 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 14, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · January 30, 2026
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00865422

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Schroeder Dale R
Type
Individual
Address
290 Valley Airport Pl
Cotter, AR 72626

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 3

1991-04-18Piper PA-28-161 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1980-09-18Piper PA-28RT-201 · exported to Belgium · Valid registration
1960-08-22Cessna 172 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data