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N315K

Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12

Valid Michigan

N315K is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to J-Kru Transport LLC, an LLC in Twin Lake, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated September 1, 2018.

Aircraft

Maker
Vans Aircraft Inc
Model
RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
Serial number
120940
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2018
Transponder code
A35A45 (octal 50655105)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 1, 2026
Expires
July 31, 2033
Last FAA action
July 1, 2026
Airworthiness
Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · September 1, 2018
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01274220

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
J-Kru Transport LLC
Type
LLC
Address
5340 Holton Rd
Twin Lake, MI 49457-9321

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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

2000-03-07Beech 95-B55 (T42A) · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N315K, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to J-Kru Transport LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 1, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated September 1, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120940 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N315K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 95-B55 (T42A) (serial TC-865, cancelled March 7, 2000). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N315K: Accident on October 15, 1997 at Kennesaw, GA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ATL98FA002Accident on October 15, 1997 at Kennesaw, GA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: TC-865

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 95-B55 · operated under 091

the pilot's improper emergency procedures and subsequent loss of aircraft control, while attempting to maneuver for a precautionary landing. A factor relating to the accident was: partial loss of power in one or both engines for undetermined reason(s).

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL98FA002 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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