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N39JH

Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12

Valid Texas

N39JH 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 an individual in Center, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 28, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated May 12, 2014.

Aircraft

Maker
Vans Aircraft Inc
Model
RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
Serial number
120748
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2014
Transponder code
A48140 (octal 51100500)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 28, 2024
Expires
October 31, 2031
Last FAA action
October 28, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · May 12, 2014
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01144090

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dance Carlton S
Type
Individual
Address
108 Selma St
Center, TX 75935-3926

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 2

2010-04-07Ryan NAVION A · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
—Hartman James T MX SUPER · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N39JH, 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 Dance Carlton S, an individual, certificate issued October 28, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated May 12, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120748 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N39JH was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Ryan NAVION A (serial NAV-4-1985, cancelled April 7, 2010); Hartman James T MX SUPER (serial 4140, cancelled date not given). 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 N39JH: Accident on February 23, 1992 at Oklahoma City, OK: serious 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

FTW92LA072Accident on February 23, 1992 at Oklahoma City, OK: serious injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: NAV-4-1985

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ryan NAVION A · operated under 091

THE PROPELLER HYDRAULIC CONTROL PITCH SETTING BEING INCORRECT FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO IDENTIFY AND CORRECT THE PITCH SETTING AS THE PROPELLER WENT TO A HIGHER SETTING.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW92LA072 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