Taylorcraft BL-65
N27639 is a Taylorcraft BL-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 Glendale, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 18, 2008 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 10, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BL-65 · all BL-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2281
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-145B SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A2BFA9 (octal 50537651)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 18, 2008
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 10, 1955
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00910143
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kiehl Timothy A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6402 W Beryl Ave
Glendale, AZ 85302-1123
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.
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The public federal record on N27639, 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 Kiehl Timothy A, an individual, certificate issued November 18, 2008, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 10, 1955, 15 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 2281 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N27639 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 N27639: Accident on October 24, 2008 at Glendale, AZ: 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 BL-65 · operated under 091
The Kitfox's pilot's failure to ascertain if the intersection he approached was clear of conflicting traffic and the controller's failure to provide pertinent traffic advisories to both pilots. Contributing to the accident was the reduced visibility from the cockpits of the conventional gear airplanes.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR09LA024 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