Aeronca C-3
N14640 is an Aeronca C-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Shannon Air Museum LLC, an LLC in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 27, 1984.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- C-3 · all C-3s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Aeronca C-3 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
- 526
- 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 · Aeronca E113 SERIES · 45 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A0BBF7 (octal 50135767)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 20, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 27, 1984
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00311770
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shannon Air Museum 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
- 3380 Shannon Airport Cir
Fredericksburg, VA 22408-2300
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.
Connections how N14640 links to the rest of the register
- Aeronca C-3 52 registered
- Aeronca 3,953 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Aeronca E113 series 56 aircraft with this engine series · 45 hp
- Shannon Air Museum LLC 21 aircraft in the fleet
- Fredericksburg, VA 126 aircraft registered in this town
- Shannon Airport · EZF
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Aeronca C-3 9 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N14640.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N14640, 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 Shannon Air Museum LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 20, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 526 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N14640 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 N14640. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data