{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-07-02","airworthiness_ops":"Operating light-sport kit-built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"ALBUQUERQUE","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-15"},{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-24"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55593","engine_horsepower":100,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"912 IS","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-09-17","maker":"Vans Aircraft Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"069002L","mode_s_code":"52347725","mode_s_hex":"A9CFD5","model":"RV-12IS","n_number":"N731M","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N731M 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 Albuquerque, New Mexico. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending\". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated July 2, 2025. 2 documents are on file: 2 \u00d7 bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated July 2, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 121591 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N731M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Stinson VULTEE V-77 (serial 77-73, cancelled November 20, 2014); Ryan Aircraft B-5 (serial 231, cancelled August 15, 1931). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"2 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 15, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 24, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N731M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"121591","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NM","status":"Registration pending","status_code":"R","status_short":"Pending","street":"11500 CARMEL AVE NE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01498219","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N731M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2025,"zip":"871221579"}