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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Fairchild F-45
N16878 is a Fairchild F-45, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1937. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Margarita, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2004 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated September 29, 1976.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild
- Model
- F-45
- Serial number
- 4014
- 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 · Wright 975E&F-2&3 · 475 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1937
- Cruising speed
- 117 mph
- Transponder code
- A112D4 (octal 50211324)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 2004
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- May 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and development; To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 10 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 29, 1976
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00132240
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dudley Denise M
- 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
- 1780 Twin Oaks Rd
Santa Margarita, CA 93453-8700
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N16878 links to the rest of the register
- Fairchild 616 aircraft on the register
- Wright 975E&F-2&3 39 aircraft with this engine series · 475 hp
- Santa Margarita, CA 18 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,673 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N16878, 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 Dudley Denise M, an individual, certificate issued April 23, 2004, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 29, 1976, 39 years after the 1937 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 4014 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N16878 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N16878. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data