Fairchild C-123K
N22968 is a Fairchild C-123K, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 52 seats. It is registered to Air Heritage Incorporated, a corporation in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 1996 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 22, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild
- Model
- C-123K · all C-123Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 54-664
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 5 motors · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
- Seats
- 52
- Year built
- 1954
- Transponder code
- A205BB (octal 50402673)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 13, 1996
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · July 22, 2026
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00934832
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Heritage Incorporated
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 35 Piper St
Beaver Falls, PA 15010-1043
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N22968, 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 Air Heritage Incorporated, a corporation, certificate issued November 13, 1996, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 22, 2026, 72 years after the 1954 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 54-664 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N22968 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150H (serial 15068650, cancelled January 5, 1989). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N22968: Accident on November 2, 1986 at Portland, TX: 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: Cessna 150H · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW87LA014 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
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