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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026
N56740

Aeronca 0-58B

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesCalifornia

N56740 is an Aeronca 0-58B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Adelanto, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2004 and expires on August 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

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Aircraft

Maker
Aeronca
Model
0-58B · all 0-58Bs and related versions
Serial number
058B12873
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
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
71 mph
Transponder code
A743E8 (octal 51641750)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
June 4, 2004
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00750386

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mctaggart Briar C
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
15937 Piper Way
Adelanto, CA 92301-3133

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N56740 links to the rest of the register

Design
Place
  • Adelanto, CA 21 aircraft registered in this town
  • California 27,713 aircraft registered

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Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N56740, 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 Mctaggart Briar C, an individual, certificate issued June 4, 2004, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 058B12873 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N56740 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 N56740: Accident on August 21, 1988 at Grass Valley, CA: 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

LAX88LA293Accident on August 21, 1988 at Grass Valley, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aeronca 0-58B · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data