Sky DutyVan's RV-12: US Fleet Statistics
As of the FAA registry snapshot on July 11, 2026, there are 905 Van's RV-12 aircraft with a valid US registration — ranking it #54 among all US civil aircraft model families by registration count. Every figure on this page is computed directly from the public FAA aircraft registry.
How many Van's RV-12s are registered in the United States?
The FAA aircraft registry lists 905 Van's RV-12 aircraft with a valid registration as of July 11, 2026. The Van's RV-12 is a single-engine airplane, and this family groups every registered variant of the Van's RV12 together. It ranks #54 by registration count among the model families tracked in this dataset.
These counts come from the FAA MASTER file and reflect aircraft with an active “valid” registration status. To pull up the current owner, based state, and registration dates for a specific airframe, use the free FAA tail number lookup. To browse every model in this dataset, see the US aircraft fleet statistics index.
Van's RV-12 registrations by state
Texas has the most registered Van's RV-12 aircraft, with 95. The table below shows the ten states with the most Van's RV-12 registrations by the owner address on file with the FAA.
| Rank | State | Registered | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas (TX) | 95 | 10.5% |
| 2 | Florida (FL) | 82 | 9.1% |
| 3 | Oregon (OR) | 74 | 8.2% |
| 4 | California (CA) | 68 | 7.5% |
| 5 | Washington (WA) | 53 | 5.9% |
| 6 | Ohio (OH) | 34 | 3.8% |
| 7 | Wisconsin (WI) | 33 | 3.6% |
| 8 | Arizona (AZ) | 32 | 3.5% |
| 9 | Georgia (GA) | 29 | 3.2% |
| 10 | Tennessee (TN) | 27 | 3.0% |
Share is of all 905 registered Van's RV-12 aircraft. Based on FAA registered-owner state; not all aircraft are based where they are registered.
How old are registered Van's RV-12s?
The median registered Van's RV-12 was manufactured in 2017. Most were built between 2011 and 2024, and manufacture years across the registered fleet span roughly 2009 to 2025. A manufacture year is on file for 768 of the 905 registered aircraft.
Model year is one of the fields Sky Duty tracks on every tail alongside Hobbs and tach times. See how the app handles aircraft and fleet records.
Van's RV-12 engine, seats, and aircraft class
The typical registered Van's RV-12 is a single-engine airplane with a single piston engine, configured with 2 seats. The values below are the most common across all registered Van's RV-12 aircraft in the FAA data; individual airframes vary by variant and configuration.
- Aircraft class
- Fixed Wing Single-Engine
- Engines
- 1 × Piston
- Typical seats
- 2
- Manufacturer
- Van's
Data: FAA Releasable Aircraft Database (registry.faa.gov), snapshot 2026-07-11. Counts reflect US civil aircraft with a valid FAA registration (status codes V, M, and T). Variants of the Van's RV12 are grouped into a single model family. Manufacture-year bounds use the 1st and 99th percentiles to exclude data-entry outliers in the FAA year field. Figures update when the registry is re-imported.
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