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Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N266VA 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 Chi Aerospace INC, a corporation in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 8, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated July 18, 2014.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. A kit, built by its owner or by the factory as a light sport aircraft. This is how the Van's Aircraft RV-12 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 12041
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A29723 (octal 50513443)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 8, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 8, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 18, 2014
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01154635
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chi Aerospace INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 58 Durham St
Portsmouth, NH 03886
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N266VA links to the rest of the register
- Van's Aircraft RV-12 950 registered
- Vans Aircraft Inc 966 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912ULS series 3,383 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Chi Aerospace INC 10 aircraft in the fleet
- Portsmouth, NH 125 aircraft registered in this town
- Portsmouth International AT Pease · PSM
- New Hampshire 1,555 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Van's Aircraft RV-12 2 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N266VA, 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 Chi Aerospace INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 8, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated July 18, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12041 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N266VA 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 N266VA. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data