Taylorcraft BC12-D
N94903 is a Taylorcraft BC12-D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Belle Plaine, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 1998 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 22, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BC12-D · all BC12-Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 9303
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- AD310B (octal 53230413)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 1998
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · January 22, 1959
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00284690
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dopfel Bruce E
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1564 E 90Th Ave N
Belle Plaine, KS 67013-8247 - Co-owners
- Dopfel Leann R
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 N94903, 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 Dopfel Bruce E, a co-owned, certificate issued March 21, 1998, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 22, 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9303 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N94903 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 N94903: Accident on April 1, 1986 at Leslie, MI: minor 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: Taylorcraft BC12-D · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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