Vallender Merrill J RV-4
N12MV is a Vallender Merrill J RV-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Morgan, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 17, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 21, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vallender Merrill J
- Model
- RV-4
- Serial number
- 3671
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-4
- Transponder code
- A05280 (octal 50051200)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 17, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 17, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 21, 2004
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00079589
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Karduck Craig
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5563 Day Lily Dr
Morgan, UT 84050-9375
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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
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The public federal record on N12MV, 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 Karduck Craig, an individual, certificate issued October 17, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3671 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12MV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Vavra Martin A REBEL 300 (serial S890022, cancelled June 14, 1996). 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 N12MV: Accident on April 23, 1994 at Wonderlake, IL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Vavra, Martin A. REBEL 300 · operated under 091
FATIGUE AND CATASTROPHIC FAILURE OF THE MAIN WING SPAR RESULTING FROM THE DESIGNER'S EXCESSIVE, UNVERIFIED ESTIMATE OF THE STRENGTH OF THE SPAR CAP MATERIAL AND THE MANUFACTURER'S FAILURE TO ATTAIN THE SPECIFIED STRENGTH DURING THE PRODUCTION PROCESS.
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