Charles L Smith RV-12IS
N1507J is a Charles L Smith RV-12IS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in La Marque, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 27, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Charles L Smith
- Model
- RV-12IS
- Serial number
- 121086
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-12IS
- Transponder code
- A0CD85 (octal 50146605)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 6, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2024
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 27, 2021
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01337785
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Charles L
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 735 Willow Harbor Ln
La Marque, TX 77568-1955
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 2
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The public federal record on N1507J, 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 Smith Charles L, an individual, certificate issued April 6, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 27, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 121086 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1507J was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-401 (serial 401-0824, cancelled July 16, 2013); Piper PA-28-140 (serial 28-23900, cancelled April 3, 1968). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1507J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data