Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N417E 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 San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, market survey, dated April 14, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 120711
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A4EE85 (octal 51167205)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 29, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Unmanned aircraft, market survey · April 14, 2014
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01146785
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heritch Ian D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 13326 Voelcker Ranch Dr
San Antonio, TX 78231-2250
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N417E, 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 Heritch Ian D, an individual, certificate issued August 29, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for unmanned aircraft, market survey, dated April 14, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120711 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N417E 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N417E. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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