Taylorcraft BC12-D
N43529 is a Taylorcraft BC12-D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Peru, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 18, 1970.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BC12-D · all BC12-Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 7188
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A53871 (octal 51234161)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 2015
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 18, 1970
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00752214
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Virgin Thomas C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 221 Mineral Springs Rd
Peru, ME 04290-3216
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 N43529, 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 Virgin Thomas C, an individual, certificate issued April 13, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 18, 1970, 24 years after the 1946 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 7188 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N43529 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 N43529: Accident on October 20, 2001 at Farmville, VA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 22, 1986 at Tioga, NY: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Taylorcraft BC12-D · operated under 091
The CFI's failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff. A factor in the accident was the CFI's decision to conduct the flight from the airplane's right seat, which was not equipped with brakes.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC02LA020 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Taylorcraft BC12-D · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC86LA086 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