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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Taylorcraft BC12-D
N96346 is a Taylorcraft BC12-D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 26, 1955.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BC12-D · all BC12-Ds and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Taylorcraft BC12 BC-12D family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 8646
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- AD6A4E (octal 53265116)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 6, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 6, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · October 26, 1955
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00834270
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Groat Kenneth
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 406 e Kinnikinnik Ave
Palmer, AK 99645-6826
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.
Connections how N96346 links to the rest of the register
- Taylorcraft BC12 BC-12D 1,224 registered
- Taylorcraft 1,897 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental A65 / C65 series 7,965 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Palmer, AK 546 aircraft registered in this town
- Butte Municipal · AK1
- Warren "Bud" Woods Palmer Municipal · PAQ
- Finger Lake Seaplane Base · 99Z
- Gooding Lake Seaplane Base · 2D3
- Alaska 9,146 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Taylorcraft BC12 BC-12D 10 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Taylorcraft BC12 BC-12D 9 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Taylorcraft BC12 BC-12D 86 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N96346, 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 Groat Kenneth, an individual, certificate issued April 6, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8646 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N96346 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 N96346: Accident on July 23, 1998 at Tyonek, AK: 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: Taylorcraft BC12-D · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control while landing. A factor associated with the accident were willow trees near the airstrip.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data