Christen Industries Inc A-1
N12WP is a Christen Industries Inc A-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Spradlin Flying Service INC, a corporation in Petersburg, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 23, 1987.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Christen Industries Inc
- Model
- A-1 · all A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1013
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0535B (octal 50051533)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 3, 2020
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- August 7, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 23, 1987
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00245580
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spradlin Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 691
Petersburg, TX 79250-0691
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N12WP, 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 Spradlin Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 3, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. 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 1013 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12WP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Penny Walter R VARI-EZE (serial 926, cancelled August 5, 2013). 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 N12WP: Accident on January 8, 1992 at Lamar, MS: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Walter R. Penney VARI-EZE · operated under 091
THE PILOT IN COMMANDS DEPARTURE INTO AND CONTINUED FLIGHT IN INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS WHILE OPERATING UNDER VISUAL FLIGHT RULES RESULTING IN AN INFLIGHT COLLISION WITH TREES AND THEN THE GROUND.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA92LA057 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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