Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS
N736JA is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Joby Aero INC, a corporation in Santa Cruz, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 20, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated February 25, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12IS · all RV-12ISs and related versions
- Serial number
- 12157
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A9E21E (octal 52361036)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 20, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 20, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · February 25, 2024
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01437287
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Joby Aero INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 333 Encinal St
Santa Cruz, CA 95060-2132
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N736JA, 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 Joby Aero INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 20, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated February 25, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12157 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N736JA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna R172K (serial R1722553, cancelled June 12, 1989). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N736JA. 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