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N2564M

Piper PA-12

Valid Montana

N2564M 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 an individual in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 3, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 8, 1955.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
Serial number
12-937
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1946
Cruising speed
82 mph
Transponder code
A270B8 (octal 50470270)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 3, 2009
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · November 8, 1955
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00133072

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Monger Douglas J
Type
Individual
Address
1111 Leslie Ave
Helena, MT 59601-1820

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N2564M, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Monger Douglas J, an individual, certificate issued November 3, 2009, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 8, 1955, 9 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12-937 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N2564M according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N2564M: Accident on May 28, 2001 at Augusta, MT: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Accident on August 5, 1996 at Astoria, OR: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 2

SEA01FA106Accident on May 28, 2001 at Augusta, MT: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 12937

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-12 · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed after takeoff resulting in an inadvertent stall at low a altitude.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

SEA96LA178Accident on August 5, 1996 at Astoria, OR: minor injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-12 · operated under 091

failure of the carburetor heat box flapper valve, and the resultant air flow restriction to the carburetor. A factor relating to the accident was: high vegetation in the area where the forced landing was executed.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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