Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N8259S is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Peachtree City, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 8, 2019 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated June 5, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 121006
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- AB4712 (octal 52643422)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 8, 2019
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- April 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · June 5, 2019
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01294564
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sowers Scott E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 400 Taberon Rd
Peachtree City, GA 30269-3215
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8259S, 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 Sowers Scott E, an individual, certificate issued April 8, 2019, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated June 5, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 121006 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8259S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150F (serial 15061859, cancelled October 18, 2010). 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 N8259S: Accident on December 27, 1991 at Lancaster, CA: no 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: Cessna 150F · operated under 091
THE PILOT MISJUDGING THE LANDING FLARE. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS THE PILOT'S LACK OF TOTAL FLIGHT EXPERIENCE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX92LA073 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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