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N4754

Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12

Sale reported Minnesota

N4754 is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2017. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Crystal, Minnesota. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported, pending cancellation". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated October 5, 2017.

Aircraft

Maker
Vans Aircraft Inc
Model
RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
Serial number
120531
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2017
Transponder code
A5D691 (octal 51353221)

Registration

Status
Sale reported, pending cancellation
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
March 5, 2026
Airworthiness
Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · October 5, 2017
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01257529

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sale Reported
Type
Individual
Address
6000 Douglas Dr N
Crystal, MN 55429-2314

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

1992-10-16Boeing 727-235 · exported to Mexico · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N4754, 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.

ATTENTIONRegistration and identity

Registration status is "Sale reported, pending cancellation". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated October 5, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120531 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4754 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 727-235 (serial 19474, cancelled October 16, 1992). 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 N4754: Accident on March 28, 2025 at Chesterfield, VA: no 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

ERA25LA191Accident on March 28, 2025 at Chesterfield, VA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Vans Aircraft INC RV-12 · operated under 091

The pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing and the collapse of the nose landing gear.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA25LA191 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