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N796DK

John D Watkins VANS RV-12

Valid Kentucky

N796DK is a John D Watkins VANS RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Taylorsville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2017 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 28, 2021.

Aircraft

Maker
John D Watkins
Model
VANS RV-12
Serial number
120607
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Honda 1.5L GDI · 174 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2020
Kit
VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-12
Transponder code
AACEA4 (octal 52547244)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 13, 2017
Expires
April 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · May 28, 2021
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01233103

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Watkins John D
Type
Co-owned
Address
3505 Kings Church Rd
Taylorsville, KY 40071-7906
Co-owners
Watkins Nancy L

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.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data