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Fairchild 22 C7D
N9480 is a Fairchild 22 C7D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1934. It has 2 seats. It is registered to A26 LLC, an LLC in Verona, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 2018 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild
- Model
- 22 C7D · all 22 C7Ds 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. A biplane of the 1920s and 1930s: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric covering. This is how the Fairchild 22 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
- 910
- 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 · Menasco PIRATE C4 D4 · 125 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1934
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AD2D38 (octal 53226470)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 27, 2018
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00363828
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- A26 LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 15200 Porter Rd
Verona, KY 41092-9205
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N9480 links to the rest of the register
- Fairchild 22 21 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
- Menasco PIRATE C4 D4 28 aircraft with this engine series · 125 hp
- A26 LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Verona, KY 3 aircraft registered in this town
- Kentucky 2,982 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Fairchild 22 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Fairchild 22 7 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Fairchild 22 8 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N9480, 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 A26 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 27, 2018, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for to show compliance with regulations; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 910 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9480 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 N9480. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data