Dean Allen Franklin VANS ACFT INC RV-6A
N12045 is a Dean Allen Franklin VANS ACFT INC RV-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Woodway, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 6, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dean Allen Franklin
- Model
- VANS ACFT INC RV-6A
- Serial number
- 21256
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-D2J · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2019
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-6A
- Transponder code
- A056B4 (octal 50053264)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). 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 6, 2019
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01287404
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Robinson Claudius E
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 808 Deer Ridge Dr
Woodway, TX 76712-3226
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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 2
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The public federal record on N12045, 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 Robinson Claudius E, an individual, certificate issued July 31, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 6, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21256 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12045 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Tailwind-Couger #1 (serial 1, cancelled March 24, 1971); Anton C Jacobson JACOBSON HEATH 1931 (serial 101, cancelled June 15, 1938). 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 N12045. 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 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 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