Carr Bryan RV4
N12DS is a Carr Bryan RV4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in College Station, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 23, 1987.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Carr Bryan
- Model
- RV4
- Serial number
- 27
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- A051B5 (octal 50050665)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 6, 2021
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 23, 1987
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00315360
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Buckbee Robert E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2504 Savannah Ct
College Station, TX 77845-4114
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.
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The public federal record on N12DS, 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 Buckbee Robert E, an individual, certificate issued March 6, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 23, 1987, 3 years after the 1984 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N12DS according to the deregistered file. [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 N12DS: Accident on January 23, 1986 at Opa Locka, FL: no 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: Cessna 310J · operated under 091
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data