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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026
N533JB

James A Bishop VANS RV-12

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida

N533JB is a James A Bishop VANS RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to White Rose Eng 2 LLC, an LLC in Bonita Springs, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 9, 2012.

Where is it now Last seen October 13 at 2:00 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
James A Bishop
Model
VANS RV-12
Serial number
120165
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
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912S · 100 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-12
Transponder code
A6BC5C (octal 51536134)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
January 14, 2024
Expires
January 31, 2031
Last FAA action
January 14, 2024
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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 9, 2012
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01088520

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
White Rose Eng 2 LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
27031 Driftwood Dr
Bonita Springs, FL 34135-4320

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N533JB links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Rotax 912S 335 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
Owner
Place
  • Bonita Springs, FL 65 aircraft registered in this town
  • Florida 21,702 aircraft registered
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Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N533JB, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to White Rose Eng 2 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 14, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120165 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N533JB according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N533JB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data