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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Taylorcraft DCO-65
N48832 is a Taylorcraft DCO-65, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Independence, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 29, 2009 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 2, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- DCO-65 · all DCO-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 DCO-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
- L-4885
- 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
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- A6092D (octal 51404455)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 29, 2009
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- 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 · June 2, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00930435
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Louis D
- 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
- PO Box 353
Independence, OR 97351-0353 - Co-owners
- Smith Rosemarie U
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
Connections how N48832 links to the rest of the register
- Taylorcraft DCO-65 195 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
- Independence, OR 216 aircraft registered in this town
- Independence State Airport · 7S5
- Oregon 7,020 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Taylorcraft DCO-65 1 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Taylorcraft DCO-65 49 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N48832, 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 Smith Louis D, a co-owned, certificate issued January 29, 2009, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 2, 1956, 13 years after the 1943 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 L-4885 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N48832 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft L-2B (serial 4927, cancelled December 21, 1964). 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 N48832. 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