Aero Commander 685
N1203N is an Aero Commander 685, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 9 seats. It is registered to an individual in Middleville, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 5, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 8, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- 685 · all 685s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12046
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 101 mph
- Transponder code
- A05680 (octal 50053200)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 5, 2005
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 8, 1996
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00672173
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bracy Rodney E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11805 Davis Rd
Middleville, MI 49333-8654
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N1203N, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Bracy Rodney E, an individual, certificate issued January 5, 2005, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 8, 1996, 24 years after the 1972 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12046 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1203N according to the deregistered file. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N1203N: Accident on July 8, 2000 at Pine Bluff, AR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aero Commander 685 · operated under 091
the pilot's misjudged flare, which resulted in a hard landing. A contributing factor was the pilot's lack of total experience in the make and model of airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW00LA203 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data