Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS
N242AR 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 Damselfly Aviation LLC, an LLC in Springville, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated July 3, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12IS · all RV-12ISs and related versions
- Serial number
- 12191
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A2377D (octal 50433575)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 31, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · July 3, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01506836
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Damselfly Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3876 Grindstone Dr
Springville, UT 84663
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N242AR, 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 Damselfly Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 31, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated July 3, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12191 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N242AR 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]
1 NTSB record under N242AR: Accident on April 6, 1991 at Avenal, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 414A · operated under 135
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL AFTER STRIKING A DIRT BERM DURING THE LANDING ROLL. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO ENSURE THAT THE AIRPORT WAS ADEQUATE FOR HIS INTENDED OPERATIONS.
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 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