Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N246RV is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Grant Park, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 23, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated July 31, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 120389
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A247D4 (octal 50443724)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 23, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 23, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · July 31, 2014
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01129454
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pigozzo Gino
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6013 Tulip Ln
Grant Park, IL 60940-4419
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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N246RV, 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 Pigozzo Gino, an individual, certificate issued September 23, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated July 31, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120389 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N246RV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Johansen R/ Thiessen J RV-6A (serial 20910, cancelled January 15, 2002). 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]
1 NTSB record under N246RV: Accident on July 7, 2001 at Jackpot, NV: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). 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: Johansen/Thiessen RV-6A · operated under 091
the private pilot's failure to maintain airspeed while maneuvering, which resulted in an inadvertent stall and impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX01LA239 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
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