Piper PA-24-250
N12RD is a Piper PA-24-250, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Flying Colors Airparts INC, a corporation in Leesburg, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 16, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-24-250 · all PA-24-250s and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-368
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 135 mph
- Transponder code
- A052D4 (octal 50051324)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- February 17, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 16, 1958
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00445580
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying Colors Airparts INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 2727 W Main St
Leesburg, FL 34748-4630
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N12RD, 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 Flying Colors Airparts INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 16, 1958, consistent with the 1958 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-368 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12RD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Thunder Balloons Limited AX7-77 (serial 021, cancelled October 2, 2014). 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 N12RD: Accident on October 3, 2024 at Moore Haven, FL: 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: Piper PA24 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to initiate the cross country flight with an adequate fuel supply, resulting in a loss of engine power and forced landing due to fuel exhaustion.
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