Piper PA-12
N3988M is a Piper PA-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 1990 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 29, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12-3004
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- A4A3FD (octal 51121775)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 25, 1990
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 29, 1983
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00580884
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fishback Steve M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 3037 Knik Ave
Anchorage, AK 99517-1206 - Co-owners
- Fishback Jan L
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 N3988M, 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 Fishback Steve M, a co-owned, certificate issued June 25, 1990, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 29, 1983, 36 years after the 1947 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 12-3004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3988M 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 N3988M: Accident on August 31, 1984 at Montague Island, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 24, 1984 at Palmer, 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC84LA163 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-12 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC84FA075 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
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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