Great Lakes 2T-1A-2
N3812F is a Great Lakes 2T-1A-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Great Lakes Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Palmer Lake, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial advertising, dated March 17, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Great Lakes
- Model
- 2T-1A-2 · all 2T-1A-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 0780
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A461A5 (octal 51060645)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 15, 2013
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial advertising · March 17, 1981
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00390254
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Great Lakes Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 9
Palmer Lake, CO 80133-0009
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 N3812F, 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 Great Lakes Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 17, 1981, 4 years after the 1977 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 0780 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3812F 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 N3812F: Accident on June 7, 2009 at Hamilton, TX: 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: Great Lakes 2T-1A-2 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from a tree while on short final.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN09CA349 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
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