Fairchild 24 G
N16897 is a Fairchild 24 G, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lighthouse Point, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 30, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 14, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild
- Model
- 24 G · all 24 Gs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2966
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Warner SS40&50 · 90 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 92 mph
- Transponder code
- A11319 (octal 50211431)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 30, 2022
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · December 14, 1956
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00332230
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gifford Gary W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4211 NE 23Rd Ter
Lighthouse Point, FL 33064-8015
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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 N16897, 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 Gifford Gary W, an individual, certificate issued November 30, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2966 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N16897 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 N16897: Accident on May 8, 1993 at Athens, TN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 24G · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO USE CARBURETOR HEAT IN WEATHER CONDITIONS WHICH WERE CONDUCIVE TO THE FORMATION OF CARBURETOR ICE
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL93LA089 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