Fairchild 42
N106M is a Fairchild 42, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1929. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sutton, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 12, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild
- Model
- 42
- Serial number
- 4
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P & W R-985-AN-14B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1929
- Cruising speed
- 81 mph
- Transponder code
- A01C11 (octal 50016021)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 10, 2008
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 12, 2008
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00766161
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stevenson William E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 30820 W Glenn Hwy
Sutton, AK 99674-8107
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 N106M, 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 Stevenson William E, an individual, certificate issued July 10, 2008, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 12, 2008, 79 years after the 1929 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 4 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N106M 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 N106M: Accident on October 12, 2003 at Wasilla, AK: 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: Fairchild 42 · operated under 091
The inadequate inspection of the carburetor by the aircraft mechanic who had recently worked on the carburetor, which failed to detect a cracked float, resulting in a total loss of engine power during cruise flight. A factor associated with the accident was the lack of suitable terrain for a forced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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