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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Taylorcraft 15A
N6653N is a Taylorcraft 15A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Kirkland, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 6, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- 15A · all 15As 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. The Tourist: steel tube and fabric. This is how the Taylorcraft 15 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
- 5-14017
- 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 C145 SERIES · 145 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A8C99A (octal 52144632)
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 29, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 29, 2024
- 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 6, 1956
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00363016
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carl C Bruch
- 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
- 34650 Bucks Rd
Kirkland, IL 60146-8342 - Co-owners
- Katelyn C Bruch
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 N6653N links to the rest of the register
- Taylorcraft 15 9 registered
- Taylorcraft 1,897 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 C145 series 1,828 aircraft with this engine series · 145 hp
- Kirkland, IL 7 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,065 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Taylorcraft 15 3 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental C145 series 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental C145 series 8 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N6653N, 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 Carl C Bruch, a co-owned, certificate issued June 29, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated June 6, 1956, consistent with the 1954 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5-14017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6653N 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 N6653N. 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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data