Piper PA-12
N4045M 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 an individual in Gainesville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 30, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for other, dated May 7, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12-2928
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-A2B · 150 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- A4BE90 (octal 51137220)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 30, 2017
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Other · May 7, 2012
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00821134
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schad Paul E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2961 Fm 1630
Gainesville, TX 76240-1225
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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 N4045M, 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 Schad Paul E, an individual, certificate issued November 30, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 7, 2012, 65 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 12-2928 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4045M 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 N4045M: Accident on October 25, 1987 at Brownsville, 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: Piper PA-12 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW88LA013 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