Piper PA-12
N2504M is a Piper PA-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Aerial Messages Leasing CO, a corporation in Longwood, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 9, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial advertising, dated March 11, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12-1002
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- A25A6E (octal 50455156)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 9, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- June 9, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial advertising · March 11, 1976
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00232892
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aerial Messages Leasing CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 215 Jasmine Ln
Longwood, FL 32779-4908
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N2504M, 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 Aerial Messages Leasing CO, a corporation, certificate issued April 9, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 11, 1976, 30 years after the 1946 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 12-1002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2504M according to the deregistered file. [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 N2504M: Accident on August 11, 2025 at Ponce Inlet, 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 PA-12 · operated under 091
On August 11, 2024, about 1359 easter daylight time, a Piper PA-12, N2504M, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Ponce Inlet, Florida. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 banner tow flight. The pilot reported that during the second flight of the day, the airplane departed with 17 gallons of fuel. About 1 hour after departure at about 500 ft mean seal level, the airplane experienced a momentary surge in engine power. The engine anomaly repeated several times before the engine lost power completely. …
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA25LA297 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data