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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Taylorcraft BL
N26658 is a Taylorcraft BL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to West Aviation INC, a corporation in Creston, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 15, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 28, 1977.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BL · all BLs 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 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
- 2000
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A2986F (octal 50514157)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 15, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 15, 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 · July 28, 1977
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00633412
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- West Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1718 W Prairie St
Creston, IA 50801-1320
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 N26658 links to the rest of the register
- Taylorcraft BL 13 registered
- Taylorcraft 1,898 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- West Aviation INC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Creston, IA 22 aircraft registered in this town
- Creston Municipal · CSQ
- Iowa 4,503 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Taylorcraft BL 5 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Taylorcraft BL 8 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N26658, 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 West Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 15, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 28, 1977, 37 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 2000 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N26658 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 N26658. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data