Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS
N676SW is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hartsville, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 27, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 10, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12IS · all RV-12ISs and related versions
- Serial number
- 121329
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ISC · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A8F3A7 (octal 52171647)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 27, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 10, 2025
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01432916
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Watson Robert S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 435 Oakdale Dr
Hartsville, SC 29550-8063
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N676SW, 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 Watson Robert S, an individual, certificate issued December 27, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 10, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 121329 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N676SW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 737-3A4 (serial 23288, cancelled October 26, 2017). 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]
1 NTSB record under N676SW: Incident on November 17, 2007 at Greenville, TX: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 737-300 · operated under 121
A total loss of engine power due to the No. 2 engine experiencing a release of its fan spinner through the fan cowl as a result of an unidentified object striking the spinner, separating it from the fan disk and causing the spinner to be ingested into the fan blades.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data