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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Detroit VEGA DL-1
N12288 is a Detroit VEGA DL-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Mid America Flight Museum, a corporation in Mount Pleasant, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 10, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 3, 1970.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Detroit
- Model
- VEGA DL-1
- Serial number
- 161
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P & W R-985-AN-14B · 400 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A05EB1 (octal 50057261)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 10, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 3, 1970
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00720420
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mid America Flight Museum
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 602 Mike Hall Pkwy
Mount Pleasant, TX 75455-8947
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N12288 links to the rest of the register
- Detroit 3 aircraft on the register
- Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B 77 aircraft with this engine series · 400 hp
- Mid America Flight Museum 10 aircraft in the fleet
- Mount Pleasant, TX 110 aircraft registered in this town
- Mount Pleasant Regional · OSA
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14B 536 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N12288.json.
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The public federal record on N12288, 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 Mid America Flight Museum, a corporation, certificate issued August 10, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 161 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N12288 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 N12288: Accident on March 8, 1984 at Yukon, OK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lockheed VEGA-1 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data