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Taylorcraft BC12-D · 1946 · Port Townsend, WA
N96216 is a 1946 Taylorcraft BC12-D (serial 8516), registered to Port Townsend Aero Museum (corporation) in Port Townsend, WA. Its FAA registration is recorded as v and expires December 2028; the airworthiness certificate dates from July 1964 (62 years ago). It carries a Cont Motor C85 SERIES engine rated at 85 hp, the engine on 4% of registered Taylorcraft BC12-Ds. Its Mode-S transponder broadcasts the ICAO 24-bit address AD662E. It is one of 1,014 Taylorcraft BC12-D aircraft on the FAA registry. Port Townsend Aero Museum holds 55 aircraft on the registry.
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41 of the 967 registered Taylorcraft BC12-D carry this engine (4%), across 14 engine variants on the type.
Source: FAA engine reference (ENGINE.txt), matched on this registration's engine code.
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