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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Taylorcraft DC-65
N27W is a Taylorcraft DC-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Okanogan, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 18, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- DC-65 · all DC-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 DC-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
- L5224
- 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
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- A2A617 (octal 50523027)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 18, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 17, 2026
- 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
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00670565
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lester John M
- 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
- PO Box 1627
Okanogan, WA 98840-1627
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.
Earlier use of this number 3
Connections how N27W links to the rest of the register
- Taylorcraft DC-65 49 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
- Continental A65 / C65 series 7,965 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Okanogan, WA 11 aircraft registered in this town
- Okanogan Legion Airport · S35
- Washington 10,572 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Taylorcraft DC-65 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Taylorcraft DC-65 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Taylorcraft DC-65 44 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N27W.json.
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The public federal record on N27W, 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 Lester John M, an individual, certificate issued December 18, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial L5224 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N27W was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Taylorcraft DCO-65 (serial 5721, cancelled May 16, 2024); Fairchild F-27J (serial 123, cancelled May 17, 1968); Eyerly Aircraft Corp EYERLY COUPE (serial 4, cancelled September 1, 1939). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N27W. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data