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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 120259
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A74D8B (octal 51646613)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 21, 2019
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · June 27, 2014
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01145810
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Portner Jeff H
- Type
- Individual
- 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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
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 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