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Fairchild 24W-40 · Port Townsend, WA
N28517 is a Fairchild 24W-40 (serial W40-129), registered to Port Townsend Aero Museum (corporation) in Port Townsend, WA. Its FAA registration is recorded as v and expires November 2029; the airworthiness certificate dates from March 1976 (50 years ago). It carries a Cont Motor W670 SERIES engine rated at 250 hp, the engine on 7% of registered Fairchild 24W-40s. Its Mode-S transponder broadcasts the ICAO 24-bit address A2E329. It is one of 15 Fairchild 24W-40 aircraft on the FAA registry. Port Townsend Aero Museum holds 55 aircraft on the registry.
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1 of the 15 registered Fairchild 24W-40 carry this engine (7%), across 6 engine variants on the type.
Source: FAA engine reference (ENGINE.txt), matched on this registration's engine code.
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