Fairchild 24W-46
N81222 is a Fairchild 24W-46, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Madison, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 26, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 8, 1957.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild
- Model
- 24W-46 · all 24W-46s 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
- W46123
- 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 SS165 SERIES · 175 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 102 mph
- Transponder code
- AB1383 (octal 52611603)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 26, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 26, 2025
- 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 · November 8, 1957
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00920272
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Keppen Charles J
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 410
Madison, SD 57042-0410 - Co-owners
- Keppen Michele
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.
Connections how N81222 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 SS165 series 114 aircraft with this engine series · 175 hp
- Madison, SD 68 aircraft registered in this town
- Madison Municipal · MDS
- South Dakota 2,275 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 N81222, 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 Keppen Charles J, a co-owned, certificate issued December 26, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 8, 1957, 11 years after the 1946 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 W46123 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N81222 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 N81222: Accident on July 24, 1995 at Callahan, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Fairchild 24W-46 · operated under 091
LOSS OF ENGINE POWER DUE TO FAILURE OF THE MAGNETOS. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS THE LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN FOR THE FORCED LANDING.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 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 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data