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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Taylorcraft BL-65
N21296 is a Taylorcraft BL-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1938. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Clare, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 1982 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 1, 1955.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BL-65 · all BL-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 BL-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
- 1093
- 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 · Lycoming 0-145B SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1938
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A1C4A2 (octal 50342242)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 9, 1982
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 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 · December 1, 1955
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00891432
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Witbeck Gerald B
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1674 e N County Li
Clare, MI 48617 - Co-owners
- Witbeck Lynn A
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 N21296 links to the rest of the register
- Taylorcraft BL-65 134 registered
- Taylorcraft 1,897 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-145B series 538 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Clare, MI 18 aircraft registered in this town
- Clare Municipal · 48D
- Denton Farms Airport · MI1
- Michigan 7,225 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Taylorcraft BL-65 5 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Taylorcraft BL-65 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Taylorcraft BL-65 44 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-145B series 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-145B series 3 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N21296, 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 Witbeck Gerald B, a co-owned, certificate issued August 9, 1982, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 1, 1955, 17 years after the 1938 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 1093 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N21296 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 N21296. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data