Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N257HS is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Redding, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 19, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated October 15, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 120338
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A2723F (octal 50471077)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 19, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · October 15, 2011
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01068271
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hines Steven T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2462 Marlene Ave
Redding, CA 96002-2802
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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 N257HS, 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 Hines Steven T, an individual, certificate issued October 19, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated October 15, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120338 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N257HS 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 N257HS. 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