Taylorcraft BL-65
N1939T is a Taylorcraft BL-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mcpherson, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 5, 2017 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 1, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BL-65 · all BL-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1870
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A176F5 (octal 50273365)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 5, 2017
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · November 1, 1965
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00043402
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dickhudt Gene R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 401 N Carrie St
Mcpherson, KS 67460-3711
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1939T, 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 Dickhudt Gene R, an individual, certificate issued April 5, 2017, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 1, 1965, 25 years after the 1940 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1870 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1939T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-200 (serial 28R-7135137, cancelled June 11, 2008). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N1939T: Accident on January 25, 2008 at York, SC: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-R200 · operated under 091
Loss of engine power due to improper welding of the crankcase, which resulted in fatigue failure of the through-studs and a subsequent separation of the number two cylinder. Contributing to the accident was the unsuitable terrain for a forced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data