Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS
N8980K is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Saint Petersburg, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated October 29, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12IS · all RV-12ISs and related versions
- Serial number
- 121442
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912IS2 · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- AC656E (octal 53062556)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 11, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · October 29, 2025
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01511865
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kruse James H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6109 Marina Cove Way S
Saint Petersburg, FL 33712-4795
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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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N8980K, 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 Kruse James H, an individual, certificate issued July 11, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated October 29, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 121442 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8980K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108-1 (serial 108-1980, cancelled April 6, 2018). 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 N8980K. 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