Piper PA-12
N4229M 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 Eagle River, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 1, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12-3126
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- A506AC (octal 51203254)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 14, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 14, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 1, 1956
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00821774
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hartman Gregory G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12007 Spring Brook Dr
Eagle River, AK 99577-7549
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 N4229M, 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 Hartman Gregory G, an individual, certificate issued May 14, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 1, 1956, 9 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 12-3126 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4229M 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 N4229M: Accident on October 16, 2010 at Merrill Field Airport, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-12 · operated under 091
The certificated flight instructor's failure to apply the correct remedial actions to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll.
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