Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N120AX is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Adrian, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 15, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated October 23, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 120930
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A053C8 (octal 50051710)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 15, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · October 23, 2023
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01263994
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Karl Terry L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6812 Townline Hwy
Adrian, MI 49221-9527
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N120AX, 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 Karl Terry L, an individual, certificate issued February 15, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated October 23, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120930 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N120AX was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Embraer EMB-120ER (serial 120.164, cancelled May 12, 2005). 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 N120AX: Accident on October 17, 2001 at Bethel, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: Embraer 120ER · operated under 135
The captain's continued descent below the minimum descent altitude which resulted in impact with terrain during an instrument landing approach. Factors contributing to the accident were the flightcrew's failure to reset the altimeters to the correct altimeter setting, and meteorological conditions consisting of snow obscuration that limited visibility, and the ambient night light conditions.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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