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Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS
N51VM is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2026. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Portland, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated July 1, 2026.
Where is it now Last seen October 20 at 5:54 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12IS · all RV-12ISs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. A kit, built by its owner or by the factory as a light sport aircraft. This is how the Van's Aircraft RV-12 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 121494
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2026
- Transponder code
- A660FD (octal 51460375)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 24, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and development; To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 10 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 1, 2026
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01539394
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brewer Patrick G
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4124 SW Dakota St
Portland, OR 97221-3336
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
Connections how N51VM links to the rest of the register
- Van's Aircraft RV-12 951 registered
- Vans Aircraft Inc 967 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912 IS 876 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Portland, OR 547 aircraft registered in this town
- Portland International · PDX
- Portland-Hillsboro Airport · HIO
- Portland-Troutdale Airport · TTD
- Oregon 7,012 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Van's Aircraft RV-12 2 reports since 1995
- Where N51VM is now · Last seen October 20 at 5:54 pm.
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The public federal record on N51VM, 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 Brewer Patrick G, an individual, certificate issued June 24, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated July 1, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 121494 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51VM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna TR182 (serial R18200990, cancelled August 11, 2015). 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 N51VM. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data