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N15387

Fairchild 24 C8D

N15387 is a Fairchild 24 C8D, 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 Butler, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.

Aircraft

Maker
Fairchild
Model
24 C8D · all 24 C8Ds and related versions
Serial number
3010
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6A8 SERIES · 215 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1935
Cruising speed
79 mph
Transponder code
A0D8E4 (octal 50154344)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 3, 2023
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
March 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00334641

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Nelson Ranley R
Type
Individual
Address
108 Abiline Ln
Butler, PA 16001-2476

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 · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N15387, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Nelson Ranley R, an individual, certificate issued March 3, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3010 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N15387 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N15387. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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