Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N242VA is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Adventure Aviation LLC, an LLC in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated October 7, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12017
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A23949 (octal 50434511)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 13, 2021
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · October 7, 2013
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01129610
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Adventure Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 505 Wynnewood Ct
Waukesha, WI 53188-2542
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N242VA, 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 Adventure Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 13, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated October 7, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N242VA 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 N242VA: Accident on June 20, 2015 at Oshkosh, WI: 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: Vans Aircraft INC RV-12 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to monitor the airplane's glide path during the final approach, which resulted in a low approach path and impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA15CA159 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data