{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2026-02-24","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development; To show compliance with regulations","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-06-25","city":"","country_code":"","county_code":"","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55593","engine_horsepower":100,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"912 IS","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-06-25","maker":"Vans Aircraft Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"069002L","mode_s_code":"52344573","mode_s_hex":"A9C97B","model":"RV-12IS","n_number":"N73JA","name":"","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N73JA 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 owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated February 24, 2026.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued June 25, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated February 24, 2026, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 121281 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N73JA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172R (serial 17280669, cancelled May 15, 2017). 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":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N73JA. 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":"","region_code":"","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"121281","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01511416","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N73JA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2025,"zip":""}