Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS
N122B is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mequon, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 5, 2020 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated October 22, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12IS · all RV-12ISs and related versions
- Serial number
- 121231
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- A05B39 (octal 50055471)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 5, 2020
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · October 22, 2020
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01325599
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bernstein Barry M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10829 Wyngate Trce
Mequon, WI 53092
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N122B, 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 Bernstein Barry M, an individual, certificate issued October 5, 2020, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated October 22, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 121231 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N122B was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Muse Robert E Jr KR 2 (serial 7774, cancelled October 17, 2014); Bell 47B3 (serial 42, cancelled date not given). 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 N122B: Accident on March 7, 2011 at Newberry Springs, CA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Muse KR2 · operated under 091
The airplane’s encounter with severe turbulence, which resulted in the in-flight breakup of the airplane. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s inadequate preflight planning.
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