Taylorcraft BC12-D
N96409 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 an individual in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 28, 1956. 2 documents are on file: 2 × bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BC12-D · all BC12-Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 8709
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- AD6D7C (octal 53266574)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 28, 1956
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00374400
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ryan Ashley R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 595
Palmer, AK 99645-0595
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 2
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The public federal record on N96409, 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 Ryan Ashley R, an individual, certificate issued January 28, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 28, 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 8709 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N96409 according to the deregistered file. [2]
2 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 2, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 21, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N96409. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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