Taylorcraft BF-65
N26620 is a Taylorcraft BF-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 Rochester, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 19, 1940.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BF-65 · all BF-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 BF-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
- 1962
- 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 · Franklin 4AC176B SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A297FE (octal 50513776)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 25, 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 · July 19, 1940
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00953402
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcbride David J
- 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
- 153 Kingsboro Rd
Rochester, NY 14619-2411
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N26620 links to the rest of the register
- Taylorcraft BF-65 9 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
- Franklin 4AC176B series 125 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Rochester, NY 176 aircraft registered in this town
- Frederick Douglass/Greater Rochester International · ROC
- New York 6,660 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Taylorcraft BF-65 5 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Taylorcraft BF-65 41 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Franklin 4AC176B series 2 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N26620, 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 Mcbride David J, an individual, certificate issued February 28, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated July 19, 1940, consistent with the 1940 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1962 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N26620 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 N26620. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data