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Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS
N892AA is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Vans Aircraft INC, a corporation in Aurora, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 2, 2026 and expires on November 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12IS · all RV-12ISs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. A kit, built by its owner or by the factory as a light sport aircraft. This is how the Van's Aircraft RV-12 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 12246
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC4CC3 (octal 53046303)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 2, 2026
- Expires
- November 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- November 2, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01585087
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vans Aircraft INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 14401 Keil Rd NE
Aurora, OR 97002-9467
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.
Connections how N892AA links to the rest of the register
- Van's Aircraft RV-12 954 registered
- Vans Aircraft Inc 970 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Vans Aircraft INC 35 aircraft in the fleet
- Aurora, OR 270 aircraft registered in this town
- Aurora State Airport · UAO
- Oregon 7,002 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Van's Aircraft RV-12 2 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Connector, inoperative · 2001-05-21
- Report filed on this aircraft: Stringer, cracked · 2001-03-25
- Report filed on this aircraft: Structure, corroded · 2001-03-21
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N892AA.json.
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The public federal record on N892AA, 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 Vans Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 2, 2026, expires November 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12246 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N892AA 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]
1 NTSB record under N892AA: Incident on December 13, 1991 at St. Thomas: no injuries, minor 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: Boeing 727-223 · operated under 121
PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S DELAYED REMEDIAL ACTION TO CORRECT FOR A GUST OF WIND DURING THE LANDING FLARE.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data