Taylorcraft DCO-65
N49153 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 an individual in Callaway, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 2016 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for glider, dated April 20, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- DCO-65 · all DCO-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- 5320
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- A616F2 (octal 51413362)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 10, 2016
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Glider · April 20, 1981
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00760555
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Witthuhn Johnie
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 308
Callaway, NE 68825-0308
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 N49153, 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 Witthuhn Johnie, an individual, certificate issued May 10, 2016, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 20, 1981, 38 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 5320 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N49153 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 N49153: Accident on August 1, 2015 at Selma, CA: minor 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: Taylorcraft 12-m · operated under 091
The pilot receiving instruction's use of an excessive pitch attitude during takeoff with the airplane near its maximum gross weight in hot and humid conditions, which degraded the airplane’s climb performance and resulted in a collision with obstacles during an off-airport landing. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor's delayed remedial action.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR15LA226 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