Fairchild 24 C8C
N15345 is a Fairchild 24 C8C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1935. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pisgah Forest, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 12, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild
- Model
- 24 C8C · all 24 C8Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2688
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Warner SS40&50 · 90 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1935
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A0D856 (octal 50154126)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 6, 2018
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- March 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 12, 1956
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00991850
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spurgeon James R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 396 Little River Campground Rd
Pisgah Forest, NC 28768-8650
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.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N15345, 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 Spurgeon James R, an individual, certificate issued August 6, 2018, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 12, 1956, 21 years after the 1935 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 2688 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N15345 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 N15345: Accident on July 28, 1999 at La Fayette, IL: 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 24 C8C · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to obtain/maintain the proper descent rate. A factor to the accident was the partial loss of engine power as a result of the exhaust valve keeper becoming unlocked, which jammed the exhaust valve.
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