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N3687M

Piper PA-12

Valid Alaska

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
Serial number
12-2535
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
3
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
82 mph
Transponder code
A42D5D (octal 51026535)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 8, 2004
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00583323

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bush Pilot INC
Type
Corporation
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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Bush Pilot INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 8, 2004, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12-2535 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N3687M 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N3687M: Accident on March 22, 2002 at Terrell, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

FTW02LA100Accident on March 22, 2002 at Terrell, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage.

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.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW02LA100 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data