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N8980K

Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12IS

Valid Florida

N8980K 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 Saint Petersburg, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated October 29, 2025.

Aircraft

Maker
Vans Aircraft Inc
Model
RV-12IS
Serial number
121442
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912IS2 · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2025
Transponder code
AC656E (octal 53062556)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 11, 2025
Expires
July 31, 2032
Last FAA action
July 11, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · October 29, 2025
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
01511865

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kruse James H
Type
Individual
Address
6109 Marina Cove Way S
Saint Petersburg, FL 33712-4795

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

2018-04-06Stinson 108-1 · Revoked, canceled

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