Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS
N731M 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 Albuquerque, New Mexico. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated July 2, 2025. 2 documents are on file: 2 × bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12IS · all RV-12ISs and related versions
- Serial number
- 121591
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A9CFD5 (octal 52347725)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 17, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · July 2, 2025
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01498219
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11500 Carmel Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87122-1579
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 2
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N731M, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated July 2, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 121591 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N731M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Stinson VULTEE V-77 (serial 77-73, cancelled November 20, 2014); Ryan Aircraft B-5 (serial 231, cancelled August 15, 1931). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
2 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 15, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 24, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N731M. 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