Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N42KJ is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Loveland, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated January 2, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 120593
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A4FA30 (octal 51175060)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 15, 2022
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- June 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · January 2, 2026
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01357236
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hill Jerre M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 463 Reservoir Dr
Loveland, CO 80537-8365
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N42KJ, 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 Hill Jerre M, an individual, certificate issued July 15, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated January 2, 2026, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120593 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N42KJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R44 (serial 1452, cancelled April 18, 2007). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N42KJ: Accident on May 28, 2006 at Payne Springs, TX: serious injuries, substantial 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: Robinson R44 · operated under 091
The loss of engine power for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW06LA141 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
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