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Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N57RD is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 21, 2019 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated June 27, 2014.
Where is it now Last seen Sunday at 12:28 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s 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
- 120259
- 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 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A74D8B (octal 51646613)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 21, 2019
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- 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 · Operating light-sport kit-builtFAA certificate purpose code 8B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 27, 2014
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01145810
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Portner Jeff H
- 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
- 65 Highgate Ln
Blue Bell, PA 19422-2156
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 2
Connections how N57RD links to the rest of the register
- Van's Aircraft RV-12 950 registered
- Vans Aircraft Inc 966 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912ULS series 3,383 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Blue Bell, PA 12 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennsylvania 6,182 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Van's Aircraft RV-12 2 reports since 1995
- Where N57RD is now · Last seen Sunday at 12:28 pm.
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The public federal record on N57RD, 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 Portner Jeff H, an individual, certificate issued November 21, 2019, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated June 27, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120259 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N57RD was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-76B (serial 760395, cancelled January 14, 2011); Convair 440 (serial 509, cancelled April 20, 2005). 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 N57RD. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data