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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 120034
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A9E7A2 (octal 52363642)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 20, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · October 23, 2009
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01040995
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rawlins Bruce L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 237 Orchard Way
Richland, WA 99352-7622
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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 4
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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 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