Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS
N976S is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Beyond The Blue LLP, a partnership in South Bend, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated August 20, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12IS · all RV-12ISs and related versions
- Serial number
- 12101
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- AD9B7F (octal 53315577)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2022
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · August 20, 2021
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01340455
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Beyond The Blue LLP
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 55765 Pine Rd
South Bend, IN 46619-1041
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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
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The public federal record on N976S, 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 Beyond The Blue LLP, a partnership, certificate issued July 30, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated August 20, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12101 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N976S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Raytheon Aircraft Company A36 (serial E-3370, cancelled May 21, 2015). 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]
1 NTSB record under N976S: Accident on May 31, 2012 at Macon, MS: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hawker Beechcraft A36 · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to continue flight into an area of known thunderstorms, which resulted in an in-flight breakup. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's lack of experience in actual instrument meteorological conditions and his reliance on datalink weather radar imagery for tactical avoidance of convective weather.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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