Fairchild 24W-40
N28648 is a Fairchild 24W-40, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Paula, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 13, 1955.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild
- Model
- 24W-40 · all 24W-40s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. This is how the Fairchild 24 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- W40-148
- 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 · Warner SS40&50 · 90 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 102 mph
- Transponder code
- A2E74A (octal 50563512)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 12, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · August 13, 1955
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00620227
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lombardi Andrew J
- 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
- 590 W Main St Ste 257
Santa Paula, CA 93060
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N28648 links to the rest of the register
- Fairchild 24 242 registered
- Fairchild 616 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Warner SS40&50 150 aircraft with this engine series · 90 hp
- Santa Paula, CA 107 aircraft registered in this town
- Santa Paula Airport · SZP
- California 27,708 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Fairchild 24 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Fairchild 24 4 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Fairchild 24 48 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N28648, 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 Lombardi Andrew J, an individual, certificate issued August 12, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. 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 W40-148 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N28648 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 N28648. 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 November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data