Piper PA-12
N7847H is a Piper PA-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Eastern Iowa Gliders INC, a corporation in Muscatine, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 23, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 11, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12-747
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- AAA2B7 (octal 52521267)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 23, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · February 11, 1956
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00664930
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eastern Iowa Gliders INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2164 Kincaid Ave
Muscatine, IA 52761-8400
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 N7847H, 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 Eastern Iowa Gliders INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 23, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 11, 1956, 10 years after the 1946 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 12-747 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7847H 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 N7847H: Accident on July 7, 1991 at Stockton, IA: no 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: Piper PA-12 · operated under 091
COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS NOT PERFORMED, WRONG RUNWAY SELECTED AND AIRCRAFT CONTROL NOT MAINTAINED BY THE PILOT. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE A TAILWIND/CROSSWIND COMPONENT AND A ROUGH RUNWAY.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI91LA213 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