Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N145Y is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Benton, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 5, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated June 5, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 120210
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A0B769 (octal 50133551)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 5, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 5, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · June 5, 2012
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01092636
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Helpinstine Stephen S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 134 Elwood Gordon Dr
Benton, KY 42025-7563
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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 2
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The public federal record on N145Y, 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 Helpinstine Stephen S, an individual, certificate issued February 5, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated June 5, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120210 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N145Y was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 310I (serial 310I0026, cancelled November 26, 1991); Waco RNF (serial 3325, cancelled March 26, 1948). 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 N145Y: Accident on November 9, 1989 at Provo, UT: fatal, destroyed (2 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: Cessna 310I · operated under 091
THE CESSNA PILOT MISJUDGE HIS ALTITUDE ABOVE THE WATER. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS WERE: THE PILOT ALLOWING HIS ATTENTION TO BE DIVERTED AND HIS LACK OF VISUAL/DEPTH PERCEPTION OVER THE CALM (GLASSY) WATER.
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