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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Porterfield LP-65
N25563 is a Porterfield LP-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 Hicksville, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 19, 2007 and expires on March 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Porterfield
- Model
- LP-65 · all LP-65s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. A steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings under fabric. This is how the Porterfield LP-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
- 671
- 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&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 76 mph
- Transponder code
- A26D57 (octal 50466527)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 19, 2007
- Expires
- March 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 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
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00135051
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brown David L
- 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
- 11907 State Route 2
Hicksville, OH 43526-9367
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N25563 links to the rest of the register
- Porterfield LP-65 27 registered
- Porterfield 77 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental A65 / C65 series 7,965 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Hicksville, OH 12 aircraft registered in this town
- Ohio 8,529 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Porterfield LP-65 25 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N25563.json.
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The public federal record on N25563, 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 Brown David L, an individual, certificate issued April 19, 2007, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 671 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N25563 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 N25563: Accident on September 30, 2000 at Corsicana, TX: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Porterfield LP65 · operated under 091
The failure of the pilot to refuel the airplane, which resulted in fuel exhaustion. A factor was the pilot's inadequate preflight planning and the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data