Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N409FM is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Shirley, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated July 17, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 120290
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A4CE99 (octal 51147231)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 24, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · July 17, 2010
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01051294
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Prignano Richard V JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 283 Smith Rd
Shirley, NY 11967-2224
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N409FM, 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.
Valid registration to Prignano Richard V JR, an individual, certificate issued June 24, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated July 17, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120290 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N409FM according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
1 NTSB record under N409FM: Accident on April 3, 2014 at Bayport, NY: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Vans Aircraft INC RV-12 · operated under 091
The failure of both pilots to see and avoid each other, which resulted in a collision.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA14LA181 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data