Piper PA-12
N2945M 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 Cantwell, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 5, 2017 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated December 9, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12-1344
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- A30769 (octal 50603551)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 5, 2017
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Other · December 9, 1975
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00050773
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gilliland John R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 62
Cantwell, AK 99729-0062
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.
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The public federal record on N2945M, 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 Gilliland John R, an individual, certificate issued September 5, 2017, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 9, 1975, 29 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 12-1344 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2945M 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]
3 NTSB records under N2945M: Accident on September 10, 2026 at Arctic Village, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 26, 2011 at Talkeetna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 29, 2006 at Wasilla, AK: 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA12 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-12 · operated under 091
The pilot’s decision to take off from an off-airport site in variable wind.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-12 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate compensation for a tailwind during the landing flare, which resulted in an in-flight collision with snow-covered terrain during an aborted landing. Factors contributing to the accident were a tailwind and rising terrain.
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