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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026Fairchild 71
N9708 is a Fairchild 71, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1929. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Horst Aviation LLC, an LLC in New Holland, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 8, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 11, 2013.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild
- Model
- 71
- Serial number
- 37
- 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 · P & W R-985-AN-1 · 450 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1929
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AD8715 (octal 53303425)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 8, 2006
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 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 · April 11, 2013
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00451855
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Horst Aviation 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
- 110 Short St
New Holland, PA 17557-1515
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N9708 links to the rest of the register
- Fairchild 616 aircraft on the register
- Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-1 31 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Horst Aviation LLC 12 aircraft in the fleet
- New Holland, PA 18 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennsylvania 6,194 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-1 30 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N9708.json.
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The public federal record on N9708, 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 Horst Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 8, 2006, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 11, 2013, 84 years after the 1929 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 37 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9708 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A (serial 1234, cancelled February 19, 2009); Fairchild 71 (serial 600, cancelled March 24, 1961). 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 N9708. 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