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N814DF

Nelson John Fonte VANS RV-12IS

Valid Arizona

N814DF is a Nelson John Fonte VANS RV-12IS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated October 27, 2020.

Aircraft

Maker
Nelson John Fonte
Model
VANS RV-12IS
Serial number
121105
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2020
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-12IS
Transponder code
AB1889 (octal 52614211)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 30, 2021
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · October 27, 2020
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01318735

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dion Edmond
Type
Individual
Address
7601 E Calle Cabo
Tucson, AZ 85750-2722

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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 · 5 clear

The public federal record on N814DF, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Dion Edmond, an individual, certificate issued October 30, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated October 27, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 121105 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N814DF according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N814DF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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