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A Van's Aircraft RV-12, the same model family as N342RV
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N342RV

Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesGeorgia

N342RV is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Palmer Aviation LLC, an LLC in Alpharetta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated September 13, 2025.

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Aircraft

Maker
Vans Aircraft Inc
Model
RV-12IS · all RV-12ISs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
12198
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 912 IS · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2025
Transponder code
A3C647 (octal 50743107)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 5, 2025
Expires
November 30, 2032
Last FAA action
November 5, 2025
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 · September 13, 2025
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01516615

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Palmer Aviation LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
1850 Broadwell Oaks Dr
Alpharetta, GA 30004-1582

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

2013-02-13Haynes James A VANS RV 3 · Sale reported, canceled

Connections how N342RV links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Rotax 912 IS 878 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
Owner
Place
  • Alpharetta, GA 92 aircraft registered in this town
  • Georgia 8,801 aircraft registered
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N342RV.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N342RV, 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 Palmer Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 5, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Light sport certificate for airplane, dated September 13, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12198 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N342RV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Haynes James A VANS RV 3 (serial JAH-1, cancelled February 13, 2013). 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 N342RV. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data