Douglas 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas Ripley
- Model
- PITTS MODEL 12
- Serial number
- 281
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Vedeneyev M14P · 350 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Kit
- JIM KIMBALL ENTERPRISES PITTS MODEL 12
- Transponder code
- A051B4 (octal 50050664)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 9, 2023
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01117477
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bunker Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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
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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 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 September 30, 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