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Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS
N128RV is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to D&R Sky Venture LLC, an LLC in Springfield, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 6, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated September 2, 2025.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 2:51 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12IS · all RV-12ISs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. A kit, built by its owner or by the factory as a light sport aircraft. This is how the Van's Aircraft RV-12 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 12195
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A072F5 (octal 50071365)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 6, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 6, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 2, 2025
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01515455
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- D&R Sky Venture LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5177 N Farm Road 159
Springfield, MO 65803-8099
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 1
Connections how N128RV links to the rest of the register
- Van's Aircraft RV-12 954 registered
- Vans Aircraft Inc 970 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912 IS 878 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- D&R Sky Venture LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Springfield, MO 157 aircraft registered in this town
- Springfield-Branson Ntl Airport · SGF
- Downtown Airport · 3DW
- Flying Bar H Ranch Airport · MO2
- Missouri 5,819 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Van's Aircraft RV-12 2 reports since 1995
- Where N128RV is now · Last seen Thursday at 2:51 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N128RV.json.
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The public federal record on N128RV, 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 D&R Sky Venture LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 6, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated September 2, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12195 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N128RV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hess William E RV-8 (serial 81054, cancelled July 18, 2017). 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 N128RV: Accident on March 1, 2008 at Titusville, FL: fatal, destroyed (3 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: William e. Hess RV-8 · operated under 091
The pilot of the Velocity’s failure to see and avoid the flight of four RV-8s that had landed and were in the process of clearing the runway.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data