Piper PA-12
N2511M is a Piper PA-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Austin Air Cruisers LLC, an LLC in Dripping Springs, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 4, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12-1009
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- A25DBC (octal 50456674)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 29, 2021
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- October 21, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 4, 1956
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00093082
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Austin Air Cruisers LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 155 Horse Trail Dr
Dripping Springs, TX 78620-5512
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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 N2511M, 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 Austin Air Cruisers LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 29, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12-1009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2511M 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 N2511M: Accident on March 7, 2026 at Lockhart, TX: 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: Piper PA-12 · operated under 091
On March 7, 2026, about 1323 central standard time, a Piper PA-12, N2511M, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Lockhart, Texas. The pilot and passenger sustained minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. The flight instructor reported that the airplane had about 25 gallons of fuel on board and the weight of the airplane was about 1,700 pounds. His student was on his last day of tailwheel endorsement training, and they were conducting two and three-point takeoff and landings. The instructor h…
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 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