Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS
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 Ascend Aviation LLC, an LLC in Ira, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2026 and expires on October 31, 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
- 12218
- 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
- AC5431 (octal 53052061)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01541662
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ascend Aviation LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N894AA 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
- Ascend Aviation LLC 12 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate
- Ira, MI 6 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,230 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Van's Aircraft RV-12 2 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bracket, cracked · 2004-02-19
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bracket, cracked · 2004-02-19
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bracket, cracked · 2004-02-19
- Where N894AA is now · Last seen yesterday at 10:59 am.
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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.
Valid registration to Ascend Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 7, 2026, expires October 31, 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 12218 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
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]
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 N894AA. 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 November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 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 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data