Fairchild M-62A-4
N40265 is a Fairchild M-62A-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 5, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 10, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild
- Model
- M-62A-4 · all M-62A-4s and related versions
- Serial number
- T41562
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Fairchild 6-440 SERIES · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A4B757 (octal 51133527)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 5, 2005
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 23, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 10, 2004
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00203844
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 764769
Dallas, TX 75376-4769
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N40265, 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 American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, a corporation, certificate issued January 5, 2005, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 10, 2004, 63 years after the 1941 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 T41562 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40265 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 1523, cancelled December 31, 1997); Piper PA-23-250 (serial 277305078, cancelled February 21, 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 N40265: Accident on January 18, 1988 at Carbondale, IL: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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: Piper PA-23-250 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI88FA046 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