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A Van's Aircraft RV-12, the same model family as N173RV
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N173RV

Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida

N173RV is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to N619Ns LLC, an LLC in Daytona Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated December 30, 2025.

Where is it now Last seen Tuesday at 8:27 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Vans Aircraft Inc
Model
RV-12IS · all RV-12ISs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. A kit, built by its owner or by the factory as a light sport aircraft. This is how the Van's Aircraft RV-12 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
12208
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
Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2025
Transponder code
A125DD (octal 50222735)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
July 22, 2026
Expires
July 31, 2033
Last FAA action
July 22, 2026
Airworthiness
Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 30, 2025
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01529679

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
N619Ns LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
101 Opal Hill Cir
Daytona Beach, FL 32124-2018

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 1

2019-09-06Nihon YS-11A-600 · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Connections how N173RV links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Rotax 912 IS 875 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
Owner
  • N619Ns LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
Place
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N173RV.json.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N173RV, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to N619Ns LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 22, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Light sport certificate for airplane, dated December 30, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12208 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N173RV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Nihon YS-11A-600 (serial 2173, cancelled September 6, 2019). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N173RV: Incident on March 27, 1991 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ANC91IA046Incident on March 27, 1991 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries, minor damage.serial on NTSB record: 2173

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Nihon YS-11A-600 · operated under 091

A JAMMED NOSE GEAR DUE TO INCORRECT INSTALLATION OF THE SHEAR PIN. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE INSUFFICIENTLY DEFINED MAINTENANCE PROCEDURE.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data