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N31496

Aeronca 65-TC

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesCalifornia

N31496 is an Aeronca 65-TC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in San Martin, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 24, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Aeronca
Model
65-TC · all 65-TCs and related versions
Serial number
C5720T
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
75 mph
Transponder code
A3595F (octal 50654537)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
August 24, 2009
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01029706

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Agaliotis Paul E
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
2060 E San Martin Ave
San Martin, CA 95046-9609

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 1

2002-04-25Aerotek PITTS S-2A · exported to Germany · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N31496, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Agaliotis Paul E, an individual, certificate issued August 24, 2009, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial C5720T for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N31496 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerotek PITTS S-2A (serial 2240, cancelled April 25, 2002). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N31496: Accident on July 10, 1986 at Pompano Beach, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

MIA86LA203Accident on July 10, 1986 at Pompano Beach, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 2240

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerotek PITTS S-2A · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data