Piper PA-12
N4280M 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 Cape May Aerial Advertising LLC, an LLC in Cape May Ch, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 23, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial advertising, dated June 22, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12-3208
- 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
- A51BBB (octal 51215673)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 23, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial advertising · June 22, 1988
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00531934
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cape May Aerial Advertising LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 317 Route 47 S
Cape May Ch, NJ 08210-2532
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 N4280M, 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 Cape May Aerial Advertising LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 23, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 22, 1988, 41 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 12-3208 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4280M 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 N4280M: Accident on August 5, 1992 at Green Creek, NJ: 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 DIVERTED HIS ATTENTION FROM FLYING THE AIRPLANE AND DID NOT MAINTAIN A VISUAL LOOKOUT, WHICH RESULTED IN A COLLISION WITH TREES.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC92LA142 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