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N12731

Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH 82A

Valid Iowa

N12731 is a Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH 82A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Vinton, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 1973 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 7, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Dehavilland
Model
TIGER MOTH DH 82A
Serial number
A17-491
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
1942
Cruising speed
81 mph
Transponder code
A0708E (octal 50070216)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 24, 1973
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · March 7, 1979
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00370660

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Whelchel Leon
Type
Individual
Address
111 Viking Dr
Vinton, IA 52349-3500

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 1

1933-07-05Heath V · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data