{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1956-01-28","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2007-07-16","city":"HILL CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"061","cruise_speed_mph":78,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17003","engine_horsepower":65,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"A&C65 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-01-26","maker":"Taylorcraft","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"TAYLORCRAFT","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8850316","mode_s_code":"53276553","mode_s_hex":"AD7D6B","model":"BC12-D","n_number":"N96884","name":"WALEN DAVID A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"AITKIN","damage":"SUBS","date":"1999-07-13","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI99LA241","probable_cause":"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.","registration":"N96884","state":"MN","summary":"Accident on July 13, 1999 at Aitkin, MN: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Walen David A, an individual, certificate issued July 16, 2007, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9184 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N96884 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 N96884: Accident on July 13, 1999 at Aitkin, MN: no 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"9184","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"38669 W COUNTY LINE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00554140","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N96884","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1946,"zip":"557481594"}