Piper PA-12
N78447 is a Piper PA-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Molt, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 17, 1958. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12-1957
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- AAA266 (octal 52521146)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 17, 1958
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00034960
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Larson Larry L Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 59
Molt, MT 59057-0059 - Co-owners
- Larson Lalonnie Trustee
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
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The public federal record on N78447, 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 Larson Larry L Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued May 24, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 17, 1958, 11 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12-1957 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78447 according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 28, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N78447. 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