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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Fairchild(Howard) M-62C(PT-23A)
N64176 is a Fairchild(Howard) M-62C(PT-23A), a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. 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 September 6, 1991 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for commuter, dated July 8, 1999.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild(Howard)
- Model
- M-62C(PT-23A) · all M-62C(PT-23A)s 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 on a steel-tube fuselage. This is how the Fairchild(Howard) 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
- 256H0
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A86C5E (octal 52066136)
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 6, 1991
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 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 · CommuterFAA certificate purpose code C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 8, 1999
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00682236
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airpower Heritage Flying 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
- PO Box 764769
Dallas, TX 75376-4769
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N64176 links to the rest of the register
- Fairchild(Howard) M-62 32 registered
- Fairchild(Howard) 32 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
- American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum 83 aircraft in the fleet
- Dallas, TX 1,863 aircraft registered in this town
- Addison Airport · ADS
- Dallas Executive · RBD
- Dallas Love Field · DAL
- Mckinney Ntl Airport · TKI
- 3 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Fairchild(Howard) M-62 8 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Fairchild(Howard) M-62 13 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N64176, 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 September 6, 1991, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 8, 1999, 56 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 256H0 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N64176 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 N64176: Accident on May 28, 2018 at Wichita, KS: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Fairchild(Howard) M 62C(PT-23A) · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion, which resulted from the pilot’s miscalculation of the fuel consumption rate during preflight planning.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data