Piper PA-12
N3969B is a Piper PA-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Boise, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 24, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 9, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12-278
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- A49CA8 (octal 51116250)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 24, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 9, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00601437
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reid Brian M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11850 NW Touchngo Ave
Boise, ID 83716-5001
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 N3969B, 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 Reid Brian M, an individual, certificate issued March 24, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 9, 1956, 10 years after the 1946 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 12-278 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3969B 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 N3969B: Accident on February 4, 2023 at Porterville, UT: 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 pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from snow covered terrain while maneuvering at low altitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR23LA103 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