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N16878

Fairchild F-45

N16878 is a Fairchild F-45, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1937. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Margarita, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2004 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated September 29, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Fairchild
Model
F-45
Serial number
4014
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright 975E&F-2&3 · 475 hp
Seats
5
Year built
1937
Cruising speed
117 mph
Transponder code
A112D4 (octal 50211324)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 23, 2004
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
May 11, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Research and development; To show compliance with regulations · September 29, 1976
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00132240

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dudley Denise M
Type
Individual
Address
1780 Twin Oaks Rd
Santa Margarita, CA 93453-8700

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.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data