Taylorcraft BC12-D
N43143 is a Taylorcraft BC12-D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Seward, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 14, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 29, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BC12-D · all BC12-Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 6802
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A529D5 (octal 51224725)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 14, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 29, 1956
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00122064
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Andrews Jon L JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1034
Seward, AK 99664-1034
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 N43143, 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 Andrews Jon L JR, an individual, certificate issued November 14, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6802 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N43143 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 N43143: Accident on April 16, 2001 at Talkeetna, 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: Taylorcraft BC12-D · operated under 091
The instructor pilot's lack of adequate supervision of the training flight, and subsequent loss of directional control during the landing roll out. Factors on the accident were the lack of brake pedals installed on the right pilot position of the airplane, and the student pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC01LA082 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