Taylorcraft BC12-D
N39158 is a Taylorcraft BC12-D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1945. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Bauer Power LLC, an LLC in Russellville, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 22, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 28, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BC12-D · all BC12-Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 6438
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A489A8 (octal 51104650)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 22, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 22, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · July 28, 1955
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00040614
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bauer Power LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 1001
Russellville, AR 72811-1001
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 N39158, 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 Bauer Power LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 22, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 28, 1955, 10 years after the 1945 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 6438 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N39158 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 N39158: Accident on March 22, 2025 at Russellville, AR: 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: Taylorcraft BC12 · operated under 091
The failure of the U.S. Army helicopter pilots to yield the right-of-way to the landing airplane, which resulted in the airplane encountering wake turbulence emitted from the three departing U.S. Army helicopters, a subsequent loss of directional control, and a runway excursion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA132 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