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A Taylorcraft A, the same model family as N20524
A Taylorcraft A like this one, not N20524 itself. Photo: Anthony Noble, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons. Pictures of N20524 itself may be on Planespotters · JetPhotos · Airliners.net. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N20524

Taylorcraft A

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesOregon

N20524 is a Taylorcraft A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1937. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oregon City, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 1980 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 25, 1957.

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Aircraft

Maker
Taylorcraft
Model
A · all As and related versions
Built of
steel tube and fabric
The 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 A 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
529
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 · Cont Motor A40 SERIES · 40 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1937
Cruising speed
69 mph
Transponder code
A1A751 (octal 50323521)

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 16, 1980
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 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 · November 25, 1957
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00601122

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Pflegl David H
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
20000 So Leland Rd
Oregon City, OR 97045

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N20524 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Oregon City, OR 89 aircraft registered in this town
  • Oregon 7,020 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N20524, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Pflegl David H, an individual, certificate issued July 16, 1980, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 25, 1957, 20 years after the 1937 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 529 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N20524 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N20524. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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