best way I can think of would be to look at the aircraft maintenance logs,
granted repairs could be made and not entered.. and unscrupulous thing but
it happens.

also, a title search company may also get all of the accident reports or
form 337s filed on that aircraft. They should also be able to track N#
changes, as well as reporting a clean title.

AOPA offers this service to it's members.

BT

"K. Ari Krupnikov" wrote in message
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Using an aircraft's registration number, one can look up on NTSB if it
has been involved in accidents. Is it possible to find out if an
aircraft has ever had its registration number changed, to make use it
hasn't been involved in an accident under a different registration?

I'm looking to buy a Texas Taildragger and want to be sure it hasn't
been groundlooped.

Ari.

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