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A Cessna 320, the same model family as N3012T
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026
N3012T

Cessna 320C

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMichigan

N3012T is a Cessna 320C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Big Rapids, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 27, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 28, 1964.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
320C · all 320Cs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 320 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
320C0012
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cont Motor TSI0-470-B · 260 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
6
Year built
1964
Cruising speed
183 mph
Transponder code
A325B9 (octal 50622671)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 27, 2023
Expires
November 30, 2030
Last FAA action
November 30, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 28, 1964
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00871033

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cain James W
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
19724 Tanglewood
Big Rapids, MI 49307-9467
Co-owners
Cain Michael / Cain Douglas A / Packer Nancy e / Reoch Susan M

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N3012T links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N3012T.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N3012T, 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 Cain James W, a co-owned, certificate issued November 27, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated August 28, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 320C0012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N3012T 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3012T. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data