{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1957-12-23","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2002-06-25","city":"MONKTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"005","cruise_speed_mph":82,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41505","engine_horsepower":115,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-235 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-17","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7101202","mode_s_code":"52521423","mode_s_hex":"AAA313","model":"PA-12","n_number":"N78495","name":"FORBES JAMES A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Stillwater","damage":"SUBS","date":"2001-07-07","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"CHI01LA198","probable_cause":"The loss of engine power for undermined reasons and the unsuitable terrain encountered during the forced landing.  Additional factors included the power line and the trees.","registration":"N78495","state":"MN","summary":"Accident on July 7, 2001 at Stillwater, MN: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"FORBES ALICE L","plain_english":"N78495 is a Piper PA-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Monkton, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 2002 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 23, 1957.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Forbes James A, a co-owned, certificate issued June 25, 2002, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 23, 1957, 10 years after the 1947 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 12-3906 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N78495 according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N78495: Accident on July 7, 2001 at Stillwater, MN: 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":3,"serial_number":"12-3906","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"16623 HEREFORD RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00344930","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N78495","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1947,"zip":"211111421"}