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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Taylorcraft DCO-65
N1045S is a Taylorcraft DCO-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lakeview, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 14, 1979.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- DCO-65 · all DCO-65s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Taylorcraft DCO-65 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- L-5706
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- A016A8 (octal 50013250)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 14, 1979
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00250260
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reed Wayne L
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 19767 Heritage Dr
Lakeview, OR 97630-9070
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.
Connections how N1045S links to the rest of the register
- Taylorcraft DCO-65 195 registered
- Taylorcraft 1,898 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lakeview, OR 29 aircraft registered in this town
- Lake County · LKV
- Oregon 7,020 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Taylorcraft DCO-65 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Taylorcraft DCO-65 49 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1045S.json.
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The public federal record on N1045S, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Reed Wayne L, an individual, certificate issued July 19, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 14, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial L-5706 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1045S according to the deregistered file. [2]
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. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1045S. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data