Fairchild 24R-46
N81348 is a Fairchild 24R-46, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 4 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2001 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 5, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild
- Model
- 24R-46 · all 24R-46s and related versions
- Serial number
- R46-248
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Fairchild 6-440 SERIES · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 102 mph
- Transponder code
- AB1786 (octal 52613606)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2001
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 5, 1959
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00410212
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.
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The public federal record on N81348, 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 July 30, 2001, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 5, 1959, 13 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 R46-248 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N81348 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 N81348: Accident on January 27, 1986 at Lakeway, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Fairchild 24R-46A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW86LRG12 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data