Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS
N17ER is a Vans Aircraft Inc 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 Vans Aircraft INC, a corporation in Aurora, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 18, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated February 23, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12IS · all RV-12ISs and related versions
- Serial number
- 12097
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A11748 (octal 50213510)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 18, 2021
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · February 23, 2021
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01328896
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vans Aircraft INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 14401 Keil Rd NE
Aurora, OR 97008
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N17ER, 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 Vans Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 18, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated February 23, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12097 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17ER was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Pitts S-1 (serial 347-H, cancelled July 24, 2012). 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 N17ER. 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 August 27, 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