Fairchild 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fairchild
- Model
- 71
- Serial number
- 37
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P & W R-985-AN-1 · 450 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1929
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AD8715 (octal 53303425)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 8, 2006
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 11, 2013
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00451855
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Horst Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 110 Short St
New Holland, PA 17557-1515
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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 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