Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N769BW is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Valley Mills, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 3, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated September 26, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 120456
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912S · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AA6325 (octal 52461445)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 3, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 3, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · September 26, 2011
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01068055
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kerschner Jay W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 362 Patton Rd
Valley Mills, TX 76689-2645
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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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N769BW, 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 Kerschner Jay W, an individual, certificate issued February 3, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120456 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N769BW 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 N769BW. 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