Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N897LB is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Greeley, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 29, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated February 20, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12052
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- AC6051 (octal 53060121)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 29, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · February 20, 2015
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01168258
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bruehl Matthew L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1121 103Rd Ave
Greeley, CO 80634-9090
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N897LB, 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 Bruehl Matthew L, an individual, certificate issued September 29, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated February 20, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12052 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N897LB 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N897LB. 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 September 30, 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