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N6886D

Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12

Valid Delaware

N6886D is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Daedalus Vi LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 10, 2009 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated January 26, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
Vans Aircraft Inc
Model
RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
Serial number
120031
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2009
Transponder code
A9241D (octal 52222035)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 10, 2009
Expires
February 28, 2029
Last FAA action
November 10, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · January 26, 2010
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01043734

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Daedalus Vi LLC
Type
LLC
Address
108 W 13Th St
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145

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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 2

1984-06-08Cessna 425 · Valid registration
1971-02-12Dehavilland VAMPIRE MK-3 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N6886D, 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 Daedalus Vi LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 10, 2009, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated January 26, 2010, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120031 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6886D was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 425 (serial 425-0152, cancelled June 8, 1984); Dehavilland VAMPIRE MK-3 (serial 17055, cancelled February 12, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N6886D: Accident on February 25, 1984 at Dryden, NY: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

NYC84FA092Accident on February 25, 1984 at Dryden, NY: minor injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: 425-0152

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 425 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC84FA092 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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