Aeronca C-3
N12405 is an Aeronca C-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1931. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Williamsburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 12, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 24, 1955.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- C-3 · all C-3s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Aeronca C-3 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- A-171
- 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 · Aeronca E113 SERIES · 45 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1931
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A06504 (octal 50062404)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 12, 2008
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 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 · August 24, 1955
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00880480
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Petro Jerry R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1105 Lafayette St
Williamsburg, VA 23185-2905
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N12405 links to the rest of the register
- Aeronca C-3 52 registered
- Aeronca 3,953 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Aeronca E113 series 56 aircraft with this engine series · 45 hp
- Williamsburg, VA 102 aircraft registered in this town
- Waltrip Williamsburg Executive Airport · JGG
- Virginia 5,975 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Aeronca C-3 9 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N12405, 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 Petro Jerry R, an individual, certificate issued September 12, 2008, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 24, 1955, 24 years after the 1931 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 A-171 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N12405 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N12405. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data