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N612VT

Turnbull Carl Norman SILHOUETTE

Valid Oregon

N612VT is a Turnbull Carl Norman SILHOUETTE, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1987. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Portland, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 27, 2017 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 28, 1987.

Aircraft

Maker
Turnbull Carl Norman
Model
SILHOUETTE
Serial number
SA-212
Type
Glider
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
Seats
1
Year built
1987
Transponder code
A7F819 (octal 51774031)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 27, 2017
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · October 28, 1987
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00385490

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Nelson Jack R
Type
Co-owned
Address
3006 NE Glisan St
Portland, OR 97232-3273
Co-owners
Dennis Lawrence A JR

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N612VT, 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 Nelson Jack R, a co-owned, certificate issued March 27, 2017, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 28, 1987, consistent with the 1987 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SA-212 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N612VT 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 N612VT. 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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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