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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Carroll Alan R VANS RV-8
N12AC is a Carroll Alan R VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mc Farland, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2004 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 5, 2005.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Carroll Alan R
- Model
- VANS RV-8
- Serial number
- 80177
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- A0515C (octal 50050534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 19, 2004
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 5, 2005
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00126059
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carroll Alan R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5908 Lake Edge Rd
Mc Farland, WI 53558-9493
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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
Connections how N12AC links to the rest of the register
- Carroll Alan R 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-360-A1A 601 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Mc Farland, WI 3 aircraft registered in this town
- Wisconsin 6,164 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360-A1A 26 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360-A1A 103 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N12AC.json.
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The public federal record on N12AC, 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 Carroll Alan R, an individual, certificate issued August 19, 2004, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 5, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80177 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12AC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T337C (serial 3370911, cancelled November 18, 1982). 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 N12AC: Accident on June 1, 1982 at Gunnison, CO: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna T337C · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data