Piper PA-12
N2870M 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 Florence, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 24, 2004 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 16, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12-1199
- 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
- A2EA60 (octal 50565140)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 24, 2004
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 16, 1957
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00290513
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johnson James F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5642 Lower Woodchuck Rd
Florence, MT 59833-6624
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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 N2870M, 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 Johnson James F, an individual, certificate issued November 24, 2004, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 16, 1957, 11 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 12-1199 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2870M 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 N2870M: Accident on July 4, 2012 at Stevensville, MT: 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
The separation of the left rudder control cable from the rudder bellcrank, which resulted in a loss of directional control during landing roll.
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 September 30, 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