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N3214J

Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS

Valid Illinois

N3214J is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Highland, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated February 7, 2025.

Aircraft

Maker
Vans Aircraft Inc
Model
RV-12IS · all RV-12ISs and related versions
Serial number
121066
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2023
Transponder code
A374F4 (octal 50672364)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 1, 2023
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
February 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · February 7, 2025
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01391962

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Shepherd Jeffrey A
Type
Individual
Address
38 Lexington Ln
Highland, IL 62249-3936

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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

2014-01-10Raytheon Aircraft Company B300 · N-number assigned as an import, not registered, pending cancellation

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N3214J, 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 Shepherd Jeffrey A, an individual, certificate issued February 1, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated February 7, 2025, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 121066 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3214J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Raytheon Aircraft Company B300 (serial FL-294, cancelled January 10, 2014). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3214J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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