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Fairchild 24W-46
N81318 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 an individual in Seneca, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 12, 2012 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 8, 1956.
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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
- W46218
- 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
- AB171D (octal 52613435)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 12, 2012
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 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 · July 8, 1956
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00430242
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gilmore Mark S
- 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
- 715 Ploma Dr
Seneca, SC 29678-3814
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N81318 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
- Seneca, SC 50 aircraft registered in this town
- South Carolina 3,112 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 N81318, 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 Gilmore Mark S, an individual, certificate issued October 12, 2012, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 8, 1956, 10 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 W46218 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N81318 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 N81318. 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 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