Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N9872V is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Umatilla, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated April 3, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 120834
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- ADC7D7 (octal 53343727)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · April 3, 2017
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01234202
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ludwig Gregg A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 17412 East Rd
Umatilla, FL 32784-9238 - Co-owners
- Ludwig Kimberly A
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N9872V, 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 Ludwig Gregg A, a co-owned, certificate issued August 26, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated April 3, 2017, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120834 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9872V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 188 (serial 188-0122, cancelled May 12, 1981). 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 N9872V. 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