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N1212S

Thompson Ronald B RAN S12XL

Valid Arizona

N1212S is a Thompson Ronald B RAN S12XL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sahuarita, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 23, 2008 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 14, 1997.

Aircraft

Maker
Thompson Ronald B
Model
RAN S12XL
Serial number
07950623
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
Seats
2
Year built
1996
Transponder code
A05A18 (octal 50055030)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 23, 2008
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · January 14, 1997
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00046281

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Richardson Gary R
Type
Individual
Address
1221 W Calle Ensayador
Sahuarita, AZ 85629

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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 · 5 clear

The public federal record on N1212S, 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 Richardson Gary R, an individual, certificate issued October 23, 2008, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 14, 1997, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 07950623 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1212S 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 N1212S. 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