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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Taylorcraft BC-65
N23638 is a Taylorcraft BC-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1939. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Roggwil. The FAA lists the registration as "non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports" (certificate issued July 28, 2003). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 17, 2006. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BC-65 · all BC-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 BC-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
- 1368
- 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 A-65-3 · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1939
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A221AC (octal 50420654)
Registration
- Status
- Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reportsFAA registration status code N (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 28, 2003
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- July 23, 2025
- 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 · May 17, 2006
- FAA region
- EuropeanFAA region code 8 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00047858
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Candlish John B
- 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
- St Urbanstrasse 1
Ch-4914 Roggwil
Roggwil, CH-4914
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 1
Connections how N23638 links to the rest of the register
- Taylorcraft BC-65 109 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
- Continental A-65-3 6 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- FAA orders naming the Taylorcraft BC-65 9 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Taylorcraft BC-65 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Taylorcraft BC-65 65 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental A-65-3 3 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N23638, 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.
Registration status is "Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 17, 2006, 67 years after the 1939 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 1368 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N23638 according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 30, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N23638. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data