Piper PA-12
N3687M is a Piper PA-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Bush Pilot INC, a corporation in Soldotna, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 8, 2004 and expires on January 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser 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
- 12-2535
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- A42D5D (octal 51026535)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 8, 2004
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00583323
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bush Pilot INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 123
Soldotna, AK 99669-0123
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.
Connections how N3687M links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser 1,247 registered
- Piper 44,848 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Bush Pilot INC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Soldotna, AK 258 aircraft registered in this town
- Soldotna Airport · SXQ
- Mackeys Lakes Seaplane Base · L85
- Soldotna Hospital Heliport · SD1
- Alaska 9,146 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser 32 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser 30 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser 359 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N3687M.json.
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The public federal record on N3687M, 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 Bush Pilot INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 8, 2004, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12-2535 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3687M 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 N3687M: Accident on March 22, 2002 at Terrell, TX: minor 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 inadequate supervision by the flight instructor resulting in the dual student's failure to maintain the proper glidepath during the short field approach. A contributing factor was the downdraft.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data