Piper PA-12
N78588 is a Piper PA-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Big Piney, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated October 23, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12-3957
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- AAA6AA (octal 52523252)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 10, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · October 23, 1955
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00204970
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mackey Jacob E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 741
Big Piney, WY 83113-0741
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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 N78588, 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 Mackey Jacob E, an individual, certificate issued May 10, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12-3957 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78588 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 N78588: Accident on December 15, 1986 at Opheim, MT: 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN87LA030 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