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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Douglas Ripley PITTS MODEL 12
N12DR is a Douglas Ripley PITTS MODEL 12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Bunker Aviation LLC, an LLC in Sugar Grove, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 9, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas Ripley
- Model
- PITTS MODEL 12
- Serial number
- 281
- 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 · Vedeneyev M14P · 350 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Kit
- JIM KIMBALL ENTERPRISES PITTS MODEL 12
- Transponder code
- A051B4 (octal 50050664)
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 14, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 9, 2023
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01117477
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bunker Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1929 Annettes Cir
Sugar Grove, IL 60554-9775
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N12DR links to the rest of the register
- Douglas Ripley 2 aircraft on the register
- Vedeneyev M14P 174 aircraft with this engine series · 350 hp
- Bunker Aviation LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Sugar Grove, IL 55 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,071 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N12DR.json.
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The public federal record on N12DR, 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 Bunker Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 14, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 9, 2023, 10 years after the 2013 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 281 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12DR was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-7954052, cancelled June 29, 2006); Piper PA-23-250 (serial 272649, cancelled December 10, 1990). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N12DR: Accident on April 18, 2015 at Burneyville, OK: minor 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: Pitts Model 12 · operated under 091
The partial loss of engine power due to contamination of the fuel system.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data