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N7853H

Piper PA-12

Valid Alaska

N7853H 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 Alaska Department Of Fish And Game, a government body in Nome, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 1985 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 7, 1959.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
Serial number
12-754
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
AAA5E2 (octal 52522742)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 10, 1985
Expires
November 30, 2027
Last FAA action
April 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · October 7, 1959
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00874940

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Alaska Department Of Fish And Game
Type
Government
Address
Pouch 1148
Nome, AK 99762

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N7853H, 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 Alaska Department Of Fish And Game, a government body, certificate issued July 10, 1985, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 7, 1959, 13 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12-754 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7853H according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N7853H: Accident on March 5, 1990 at Nome, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ANC90LA036Accident on March 5, 1990 at Nome, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 12754

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-12 · operated under 091

THE FAILURE OF THE LEFT GEAR AXLE DUE TO CORROSION AND FATIGUE.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC90LA036 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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