Taylorcraft DCO-65
N87787 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 Alamo Liaison Group DBA, a corporation in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 29, 2002 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 16, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylorcraft
- Model
- DCO-65 · all DCO-65s and related versions
- Serial number
- L5485
- 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
- AC13E7 (octal 53011747)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 29, 2002
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 16, 1993
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00162101
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alamo Liaison Group DBA
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2352 S Loop 1604 W
San Antonio, TX 78264-3719 - Co-owners
- Alamo Liaison Squadron
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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 N87787, 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 Alamo Liaison Group DBA, a corporation, certificate issued May 29, 2002, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 16, 1993, 50 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 L5485 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N87787 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 N87787: Accident on June 28, 2008 at Somerset, TX: 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: Taylorcraft DCO-65 · operated under 091
The right main landing gear strut failure due to metal fatigue.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW08CA172 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data