Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N8697T 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 Sweet Home, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 30, 2017 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated May 18, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 120895
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ABF3A5 (octal 52771645)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 30, 2017
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · May 18, 2017
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01248178
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tolman Nathan A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 280
Sweet Home, OR 97386-0280
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8697T, 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 Tolman Nathan A, an individual, certificate issued March 30, 2017, expires March 31, 2030. 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 120895 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8697T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182C (serial 52597, cancelled July 14, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8697T. 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