Fairchild Funk M62C F-23A
N1131Z is a Fairchild Funk M62C F-23A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Texas Air Museum, a corporation in Slaton, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 7, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild Funk
- Model
- M62C F-23A
- Serial number
- 9
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jacobs R-755B2 · 275 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A039EB (octal 50034753)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 24, 2018
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · July 7, 2012
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00071140
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Texas Air Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 12106 Fm 400
Slaton, TX 79364-7564
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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 N1131Z, 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 Texas Air Museum, a corporation, certificate issued April 24, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 7, 2012, 47 years after the 1965 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 9 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1131Z 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 N1131Z: Accident on March 23, 2018 at Columbia, TN: 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: Fairchild Funk M62C F 23A · operated under 091
The pilot's inadvertent selection of the fuel selector handle to the off position, which resulted in fuel starvation and a total loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA18LA113 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