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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Taylorcraft BCS12-65
N34068 is a Taylorcraft BCS12-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Des Moines, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 12, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 26, 1959.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- BCS12-65 · all BCS12-65s 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 BCS12 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
- 2932
- 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
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A3C099 (octal 50740231)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 12, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 12, 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 · May 26, 1959
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00562443
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nelles Elijah e
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1512 57Th Pl
Des Moines, IA 50311-2018 - Co-owners
- Nelles Lisa e
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 N34068 links to the rest of the register
- Taylorcraft BCS12 17 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
- Continental A65 / C65 series 7,967 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Des Moines, IA 108 aircraft registered in this town
- Des Moines International · DSM
- Iowa 4,503 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Taylorcraft BCS12 9 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Taylorcraft BCS12 67 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N34068.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N34068, 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 Nelles Elijah e, a co-owned, certificate issued July 12, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. 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 2932 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N34068 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 N34068. 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