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N43814

Taylorcraft BC12-D

N43814 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 Tahoe City, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 16, 2009 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated November 29, 1988. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Taylorcraft
Model
BC12-D · all BC12-Ds and related versions
Serial number
7473
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-200 SERIES · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
78 mph
Transponder code
A5436E (octal 51241556)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 16, 2009
Expires
April 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Research and development · November 29, 1988
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00792274

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Turk Caleb S
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 6563
Tahoe City, CA 96145-6563

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 1

2026-09-01Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N43814, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Turk Caleb S, an individual, certificate issued March 16, 2009, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for research and development; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7473 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N43814 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 1, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N43814. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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