Piper PA-12
N3669N is a Piper PA-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Deering, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 10, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 17, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12-1920
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- A42636 (octal 51023066)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 10, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · April 17, 1973
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00123283
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcdonald Douglas E
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 7474 19Th Ave N
Deering, ND 58731-9714 - Co-owners
- Grigsby Guy P
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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 N3669N, 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 Mcdonald Douglas E, a co-owned, certificate issued December 10, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 17, 1973, 26 years after the 1947 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 12-1920 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3669N 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 N3669N: Accident on August 15, 1989 at Rainy Pass, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-12 · operated under 091
PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE DURING LANDING, DUE TO MISJUDGEMENT OF AIRSPEED AND DISTANCE TO THE LANDING TOUCH-DOWN POINT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC89LA140 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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