Piper PA-12
N3937M is a Piper PA-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 11, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12-2825
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- A49147 (octal 51110507)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 11, 1956
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00752695
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Downs Douglas
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 10311
Fairbanks, AK 99710-0311 - Co-owners
- Downs Caroline
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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 N3937M, 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 Downs Douglas, a co-owned, certificate issued September 14, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12-2825 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3937M 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]
2 NTSB records under N3937M: Accident on August 11, 2022 at Arctic Village, AK: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on June 2, 2018 at Nulato, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-12 · operated under 091
The pilot’s decision to depart in turbulent and gusting wind conditions, which resulted in a loss of control and impact with terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA 12 · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing on upsloping terrain, and his subsequent failure to maintain adequate airspeed and his exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack during an attempted go-around, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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