Fairchild 24W-40
N28517 is a Fairchild 24W-40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Port Townsend Aero Museum, a corporation in Port Townsend, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated March 2, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild
- Model
- 24W-40 · all 24W-40s and related versions
- Serial number
- W40-129
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor W670 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 102 mph
- Transponder code
- A2E329 (octal 50561451)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 16, 2016
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; To show compliance with regulations · March 2, 1976
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00170433
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Port Townsend Aero Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 105 Airport Rd
Port Townsend, WA 98368-9716
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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 N28517, 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 Port Townsend Aero Museum, a corporation, certificate issued November 16, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial W40-129 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N28517 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 N28517: Accident on May 7, 1992 at Toledo, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Fairchild 24W-40 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS RESULTING IN FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL. A FACTOR CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS CROSSWINDS.
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- 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