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Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N73712 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 an individual in Richland, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated October 23, 2009.
Where is it now Last seen October 14 at 6:23 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. A kit, built by its owner or by the factory as a light sport aircraft. This is how the Van's Aircraft RV-12 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 120034
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A9E7A2 (octal 52363642)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 20, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Operating light-sport kit-builtFAA certificate purpose code 8B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 23, 2009
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01040995
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rawlins Bruce L
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 237 Orchard Way
Richland, WA 99352-7622
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 4
Connections how N73712 links to the rest of the register
- Van's Aircraft RV-12 954 registered
- Vans Aircraft Inc 970 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912ULS series 3,381 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Richland, WA 85 aircraft registered in this town
- Richland Airport · RLD
- Washington 10,662 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Van's Aircraft RV-12 2 reports since 1995
- Where N73712 is now · Last seen October 14 at 6:23 pm.
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The public federal record on N73712, 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 Rawlins Bruce L, an individual, certificate issued December 20, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated October 23, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120034 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N73712 was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Airbus Industrie A340-313 (serial 117, cancelled February 28, 2002); Boeing 737-7K9 (serial 28090, cancelled June 8, 1999); Boeing 737-297 (serial 20210, cancelled August 10, 1988). 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 N73712: Accident on August 29, 2011 at Windom, MN: minor injuries, substantial 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: Van'S Aircraft, Inc. RV-12 · operated under 091
The pilot's loss of airplane control after liftoff due to his distraction with the unsecured canopy, which he did not lock before takeoff.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data