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N5218M

Taylorcraft BC12-D

N5218M is a Taylorcraft BC12-D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Farmington, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 26, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 28, 1959. 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
10518
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1947
Cruising speed
78 mph
Transponder code
A69021 (octal 51510041)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 26, 2023
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
March 6, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · September 28, 1959
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00332365

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Martin Dorian B
Type
Individual
Address
2525 E 16Th St Apt 202
Farmington, NM 87401-7651

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

2026-09-22Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5218M, 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 Martin Dorian B, an individual, certificate issued April 26, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 28, 1959, 12 years after the 1947 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 10518 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5218M according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 22, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5218M. 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