Taylorcraft BC12-65
N197H is a Taylorcraft BC12-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Frankfort, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 4, 2008 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 25, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BC12-65 · all BC12-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2915
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A182DB (octal 50301333)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 4, 2008
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · February 25, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00383040
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kaspar Russell B
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1348 E Tulip Tree Dr
Frankfort, IN 46041-8071 - Co-owners
- Kaspar Susan K
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N197H, 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 Kaspar Russell B, a co-owned, certificate issued February 4, 2008, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 25, 1956, 15 years after the 1941 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 2915 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N197H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-38-B (serial 214-1, cancelled October 11, 1929). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N197H. 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 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