Taylorcraft BC12-D
N96884 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 Hill City, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 2007 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 28, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BC12-D · all BC12-Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 9184
- 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
- AD7D6B (octal 53276553)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 16, 2007
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 26, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · January 28, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00554140
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Walen David A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 38669 W County Line Rd
Hill City, MN 55748-1594
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 N96884, 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 Walen David A, an individual, certificate issued July 16, 2007, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 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 9184 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N96884 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 N96884: Accident on July 13, 1999 at Aitkin, MN: 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 right spring in the tailwheel assembly's separation. Factors were the fatigue in the landing gear, the maintenance personnel not identifying the fatigue during the annual inspection, and the right main gear's separation.
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
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