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N894AA

Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS

Pending Michigan

N894AA 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 an individual in Ira, Michigan. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: disclaimer.

Aircraft

Maker
Vans Aircraft Inc
Model
RV-12IS · all RV-12ISs and related versions
Serial number
12218
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AC5431 (octal 53052061)

Registration

Status
Registration pending
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
June 26, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01541662

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Registration Pending
Type
Individual
Address
10230 Arnold Rd
Ira, MI 48023-1000

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 1

2026-09-29Disclaimer

Earlier use of this number 1

2017-06-30Boeing 727-200 · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N894AA, 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.

ATTENTIONRegistration and identity

Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12218 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N894AA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 727-200 (serial 22010, cancelled June 30, 2017). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Disclaimer (September 29, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N894AA. 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