Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS
N912BC 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 Newport, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 20, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated July 10, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12IS · all RV-12ISs and related versions
- Serial number
- 121606
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912IS2 · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- AC9E35 (octal 53117065)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 20, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 20, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; To show compliance with regulations · July 10, 2026
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01538836
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chesteen Robert B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1228 Petunia Rd
Newport, TN 37821-7704
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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 N912BC, 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 Chesteen Robert B, an individual, certificate issued January 20, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated July 10, 2026, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 121606 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N912BC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Evans William D MAXAIR DRIFTER XP503 (serial DR 0243, cancelled December 18, 2014). 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 N912BC. 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