Fairchild C-119F
N8505A is a Fairchild C-119F, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1953. It has 78 seats. It is registered to an individual in Riverton, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2007 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 26, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild
- Model
- C-119F · all C-119Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 179
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbojet, 2 motors · Wright R-3350-34&91 · 325 hp
- Seats
- 78
- Year built
- 1953
- Transponder code
- ABAA60 (octal 52725140)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 30, 2007
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 26, 1990
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00862791
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sheppard Harold JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 39 Bruma Rd
Riverton, WY 82501-8974 - Co-owners
- Sheppard Trucking
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8505A, 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 Sheppard Harold JR, an individual, certificate issued April 30, 2007, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 26, 1990, 37 years after the 1953 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 179 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8505A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech A35 (serial D1927, cancelled November 7, 1978). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N8505A. 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 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data