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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Fairchild M-62A
N56268 is a Fairchild M-62A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum, a corporation in Hood River, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 5, 2019 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 11, 1955.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild
- Model
- M-62A · all M-62As 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. The PT-19 and PT-26 trainers: plywood-covered wooden wings. This is how the Fairchild M-62 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
- T43-5242
- 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 · Fairchild 6-440 SERIES · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A731A3 (octal 51630643)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 5, 2019
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 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 · September 11, 1955
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00670236
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1600 Air Museum Rd
Hood River, OR 97031-9800
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N56268 links to the rest of the register
- Fairchild M-62 186 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
- Fairchild (Ranger) 6-440 series 292 aircraft with this engine series · 200 hp
- Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum 148 aircraft in the fleet
- Hood River, OR 337 aircraft registered in this town
- Ken Jernstedt Airfield · 4S2
- Oregon 7,012 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Fairchild M-62 9 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Fairchild M-62 2 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Fairchild M-62 33 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Fairchild (Ranger) 6-440 series 2 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N56268, 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 Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum, a corporation, certificate issued September 5, 2019, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 11, 1955, 12 years after the 1943 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 T43-5242 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N56268 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 N56268: Accident on October 20, 1999 at Gallup, NM: 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 M62A (PT-19) · operated under 091
Failure by the pilot in command to maintain control of the aircraft during landing roll. Factors were a lack of experience of either pilot in kind and type of aircraft.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data