Taylorcraft BC-65
N24463 is a Taylorcraft BC-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 Hollywood, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 17, 1984 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 24, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BC-65 · all BC-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1800
- 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
- A24221 (octal 50441041)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 17, 1984
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 24, 1956
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00272662
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Loftus John F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 24302 Hunt Ct
Hollywood, MD 20636-2889
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N24463, 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 Loftus John F, an individual, certificate issued April 17, 1984, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 24, 1956, 16 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 1800 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N24463 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]
1 NTSB record under N24463: Accident on August 27, 1989 at Leonardtown, MD: no 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: Taylorcraft BC-65 · operated under 091
INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PLANNING/PREPARATION BY THE PILOT BY NOT ASSURING THAT THE ACFT WAS PROPERLY SECURED, OR THAT SOMEONE WAS AT THE CONTROLS WHILE HE WAS HAND PROPPING THE ENGINE. A RELATED FACTOR WAS THE PILOT'S IMPROPER ADJUSTMENT OF THE THROTTLE CABLE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO89LA077 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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