Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N212EX is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hampton, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated June 13, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 120937
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A1C16A (octal 50340552)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · June 13, 2016
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01218385
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cowley Rollin J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 209 8Th Ave
Hampton, IL 61256-9668
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N212EX, 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 Cowley Rollin J, an individual, certificate issued July 29, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated June 13, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120937 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N212EX according to the deregistered file. [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 N212EX. 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