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N33783

Aeronca 65-CA

Valid Michigan

N33783 is an Aeronca 65-CA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Aeronca Aircraft History Museum, a corporation in Brighton, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2013 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 21, 1958.

Aircraft

Maker
Aeronca
Model
65-CA · all 65-CAs and related versions
Serial number
CA-13531
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1941
Cruising speed
75 mph
Transponder code
A3B35C (octal 50731534)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 28, 2013
Expires
February 28, 2029
Last FAA action
July 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · January 21, 1958
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00242323

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Aeronca Aircraft History Museum
Type
Corporation
Address
2285 Ore Creek Ln
Brighton, MI 48114-6901

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N33783, 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 Aeronca Aircraft History Museum, a corporation, certificate issued February 28, 2013, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 21, 1958, 17 years after the 1941 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CA-13531 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N33783 according to the deregistered file. [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 N33783: Accident on August 14, 2000 at Liberty Hill, TX: minor 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

FTW00LA230Accident on August 14, 2000 at Liberty Hill, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aeronca 65-CA · operated under 091

the pilot's inadvertent activation of the left rudder control, which resulted in a loss of control while in cruise flight.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW00LA230 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 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