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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild
- Model
- 24 C8C · all 24 C8Cs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. This is how the Fairchild 24 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 2688
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Warner SS40&50 · 90 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1935
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A0D856 (octal 50154126)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 6, 2018
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- March 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 12, 1956
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00991850
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spurgeon James R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 396 Little River Campground Rd
Pisgah Forest, NC 28768-8650
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N15345 links to the rest of the register
- Fairchild 24 242 registered
- Fairchild 616 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Warner SS40&50 150 aircraft with this engine series · 90 hp
- Pisgah Forest, NC 5 aircraft registered in this town
- North Carolina 7,121 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Fairchild 24 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Fairchild 24 4 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Fairchild 24 48 supplemental type certificates
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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 November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data