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N840SH

Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS

Valid Wisconsin

N840SH is a Vans Aircraft Inc 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 Experimental Aircraft Association INC, a corporation in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated May 22, 2020.

Aircraft

Maker
Vans Aircraft Inc
Model
RV-12IS · all RV-12ISs and related versions
Serial number
12087
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2020
Transponder code
AB8171 (octal 52700561)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 14, 2020
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
March 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Light sport · Airplane · May 22, 2020
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01308067

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Experimental Aircraft Association INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 3086
Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086

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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

2009-10-13Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA · exported to New Zealand · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N840SH, 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 Experimental Aircraft Association INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 14, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Light sport certificate for airplane, dated May 22, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12087 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N840SH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 3814, cancelled October 13, 2009). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N840SH. 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