Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N712BK is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Arlington, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 4, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated April 8, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 120105
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A9839E (octal 52301636)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 4, 2009
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · April 8, 2010
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01043395
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kibby Bobby G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4008 Shady Valley Ct
Arlington, TX 76013-2911
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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 N712BK, 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 Kibby Bobby G, an individual, certificate issued November 4, 2009, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated April 8, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120105 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N712BK according to the deregistered file. [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 N712BK. 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 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