Piper PA-12
N98AW 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 Kenai, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 26, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; aerial advertising, dated August 3, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-12 · all PA-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12-2250
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- ADA8E0 (octal 53324340)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 26, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 26, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Aerial advertising · August 3, 1978
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00382393
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brewer Duncan J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 526 Ash Ave
Kenai, AK 99611-7562
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.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N98AW, 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 Brewer Duncan J, an individual, certificate issued February 26, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; aerial advertising; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12-2250 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N98AW was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Cirrus Design Corp SR22T (serial 0332, cancelled May 9, 2018); From Here To There Pdq Inc RV-8 (serial 80270, cancelled October 26, 2009); Bell 206B (serial 3214, cancelled January 7, 1998). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N98AW: Accident on August 16, 2009 at Tea, SD: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). Accident on May 18, 1997 at Hilo, HI: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: From Here To There Pdq INC RV-8 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane during recovery from an aerobatic maneuver.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 206B · operated under 091
the noninstrument-rated pilot flew into instrument conditions and failed to maintain adequate terrain clearance, while attempting to descend through an overcast. The adverse weather conditions and mountainous terrain were related factors.
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