Taylorcraft BC12-65
N47893 is a Taylorcraft BC12-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Biddeford, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 1978 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 21, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BC12-65 · all BC12-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2934
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A5E281 (octal 51361201)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 25, 1978
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · February 21, 1956
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00710115
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Merrill Leonard G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 253 West St
Biddeford, ME 04005-9762
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 N47893, 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 Merrill Leonard G, an individual, certificate issued September 25, 1978, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 21, 1956, 15 years after the 1941 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 2934 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N47893 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 N47893: Accident on June 28, 1998 at West Buxton, ME: serious 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 BC12-65 · operated under 091
failure of the pilot to see-and-avoid power lines (inadequate visual lookout), as he was approaching to make a water landing on a river.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC98LA135 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