Aeronca 65-TAC
N39515 is an Aeronca 65-TAC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Waco West INC, a corporation in Dover, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 8, 2005 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated January 13, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 65-TAC · all 65-TACs and related versions
- Serial number
- L4802TA
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 71 mph
- Transponder code
- A497F5 (octal 51113765)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 8, 2005
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- September 16, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · January 13, 1988
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00033921
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Waco West INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 8 The Green Ste A
Dover, DE 19901-3618
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 N39515, 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 Waco West INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 8, 2005, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 13, 1988, 46 years after the 1942 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 L4802TA for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N39515 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 N39515: Accident on April 12, 2004 at Grass Valley, CA: 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: Aeronca 65-TAC · operated under 091
the pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions and failure to maintain directional control of the airplane. Factors in the accident were wind gusts and tailwind/crosswind conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX04CA185 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