Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS
N516AM is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in La Porte, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 15, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated August 9, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12IS · all RV-12ISs and related versions
- Serial number
- 12141
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A677C5 (octal 51473705)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 15, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · August 9, 2023
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01409615
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aerts Frank E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4531 W Riesling Ct
La Porte, IN 46350-7211
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N516AM, 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 Aerts Frank E, an individual, certificate issued October 15, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated August 9, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12141 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N516AM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82(MD-82) (serial 49893, cancelled November 5, 2014). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N516AM. 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