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N3212S

Steven P Lyness SPORT 2S

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMinnesota

N3212S is a Steven P Lyness SPORT 2S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Waverly, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 23, 2022.

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Aircraft

Maker
Steven P Lyness
Model
SPORT 2S
Serial number
6794327
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
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 582 · 65 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
Seats
2
Year built
2022
Transponder code
A374B6 (octal 50672266)

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 9, 2022
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 23, 2022
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01368064

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lyness Steven P
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
4859 US Highway 12 SW
Waverly, MN 55390-8407
Co-owners
Nelson Lori A / Borrell Richard T

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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

2012-09-27Cessna 182G · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Connections how N3212S links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Rotax 582 62 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
Place
  • Waverly, MN 2 aircraft registered in this town
  • Minnesota 6,958 aircraft registered

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The public federal record on N3212S, 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 Lyness Steven P, a co-owned, certificate issued August 9, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 23, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6794327 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3212S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182G (serial 18255712, cancelled September 27, 2012). 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 N3212S: Accident on April 16, 1982 at Lake Wales, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

MIA82DA097Accident on April 16, 1982 at Lake Wales, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 18255712

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182G · operated under 091

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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 November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data