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Piper PA-12 · 1947 · Meadow, SD
N3497M is a 1947 Piper PA-12 (serial 12-2355), registered to Gebhart Travis D (co-owner) in Meadow, SD. Its FAA registration is recorded as v and expires September 2029; the airworthiness certificate dates from May 1957 (69 years ago). It carries a Lycoming 0-235 SERIES engine rated at 115 hp, the engine on 74% of registered Piper PA-12s. Its Mode-S transponder broadcasts the ICAO 24-bit address A3E216. It is one of 1,240 Piper PA-12 aircraft on the FAA registry. Gebhart Travis D holds 2 aircraft on the registry.
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876 of the 1,191 registered Piper PA-12 carry this engine (74%), across 19 engine variants on the type.
Source: FAA engine reference (ENGINE.txt), matched on this registration's engine code.
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