{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2026-02-26","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-11-20","city":"EAST FALMOUTH","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55572","engine_horsepower":100,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"912ULS SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","kit_model":"RV-12","last_action_date":"2025-04-22","maker":"Roger G Millard","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ROGER G MILLARD","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05632L3","mode_s_code":"51244624","mode_s_hex":"A54994","model":"VANS RV-12","n_number":"N44PL","name":"GARNER MITCHELL A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Yates City","damage":"SUBS","date":"2014-05-10","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"CEN14LA235","probable_cause":"A loss of propeller thrust due to a failure of the reduction drive unit resulting from the improper installation of the unit. Contributing to the accident was a lack of documentation for the reduction drive unit installation.","registration":"N44PL","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on May 10, 2014 at Yates City, IL: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N44PL is a Roger G Millard VANS RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in East Falmouth, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 26, 2026.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Garner Mitchell A, an individual, certificate issued November 20, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 26, 2026, 14 years after the 2012 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120404 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N44PL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Pazmany PL-4 (serial 001, cancelled March 13, 2015). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N44PL: Accident on May 10, 2014 at Yates City, IL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"New England","region_code":"E","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"120404","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"9 WILEY POST LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01102292","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N44PL","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2012,"zip":"025365498"}