Sky DutyTaylorcraft BC-12: US Fleet Statistics
As of the FAA registry snapshot on July 11, 2026, there are 1,204 Taylorcraft BC-12 aircraft with a valid US registration — ranking it #40 among all US civil aircraft model families by registration count. Every figure on this page is computed directly from the public FAA aircraft registry.
How many Taylorcraft BC-12s are registered in the United States?
The FAA aircraft registry lists 1,204 Taylorcraft BC-12 aircraft with a valid registration as of July 11, 2026. The Taylorcraft BC-12 is a single-engine airplane, and this family groups every registered variant of the Taylorcraft BC12 together. It ranks #40 by registration count among the model families tracked in this dataset.
These counts come from the FAA MASTER file and reflect aircraft with an active “valid” registration status. To pull up the current owner, based state, and registration dates for a specific airframe, use the free FAA tail number lookup. To browse every model in this dataset, see the US aircraft fleet statistics index.
Taylorcraft BC-12 registrations by state
Alaska has the most registered Taylorcraft BC-12 aircraft, with 111. The table below shows the ten states with the most Taylorcraft BC-12 registrations by the owner address on file with the FAA.
| Rank | State | Registered | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alaska (AK) | 111 | 9.2% |
| 2 | Texas (TX) | 91 | 7.6% |
| 3 | California (CA) | 63 | 5.2% |
| 4 | Ohio (OH) | 55 | 4.6% |
| 5 | Michigan (MI) | 53 | 4.4% |
| 6 | Wisconsin (WI) | 49 | 4.1% |
| 7 | Minnesota (MN) | 49 | 4.1% |
| 8 | Florida (FL) | 44 | 3.7% |
| 9 | North Carolina (NC) | 38 | 3.2% |
| 10 | New York (NY) | 38 | 3.2% |
Share is of all 1,204 registered Taylorcraft BC-12 aircraft. Based on FAA registered-owner state; not all aircraft are based where they are registered.
How old are registered Taylorcraft BC-12s?
The median registered Taylorcraft BC-12 was manufactured in 1946. Most were built between 1945 and 1946, and manufacture years across the registered fleet span roughly 1941 to 1950. A manufacture year is on file for 934 of the 1,204 registered aircraft.
Model year is one of the fields Sky Duty tracks on every tail alongside Hobbs and tach times. See how the app handles aircraft and fleet records.
Taylorcraft BC-12 engine, seats, and aircraft class
The typical registered Taylorcraft BC-12 is a single-engine airplane with a single piston engine, configured with 2 seats. The values below are the most common across all registered Taylorcraft BC-12 aircraft in the FAA data; individual airframes vary by variant and configuration.
- Aircraft class
- Fixed Wing Single-Engine
- Engines
- 1 × Piston
- Typical seats
- 2
- Manufacturer
- Taylorcraft
Data: FAA Releasable Aircraft Database (registry.faa.gov), snapshot 2026-07-11. Counts reflect US civil aircraft with a valid FAA registration (status codes V, M, and T). Variants of the Taylorcraft BC12 are grouped into a single model family. Manufacture-year bounds use the 1st and 99th percentiles to exclude data-entry outliers in the FAA year field. Figures update when the registry is re-imported.
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