Taylorcraft BC12-D1
N44257 is a Taylorcraft BC12-D1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Hazel Green, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 15, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BC12-D1 · all BC12-D1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 10057
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A55532 (octal 51252462)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 2, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · January 15, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00112484
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rigdon William Karl
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 569 Rock Cut Rd
Hazel Green, WI 53811-9716 - Co-owners
- Kennedy Erin M
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N44257, 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 Rigdon William Karl, a co-owned, certificate issued July 2, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. 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 10057 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N44257 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N44257. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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