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N2143N

Cessna 140

N2143N is a Cessna 140, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jacksonville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 4, 1955.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
140 · all 140s and related versions
Serial number
12379
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A1CB2C (octal 50345454)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 27, 2018
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · November 4, 1955
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00521462

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Suter John R
Type
Individual
Address
379 Creedmoor Rd
Jacksonville, NC 28546-6035

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N2143N, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Suter John R, an individual, certificate issued October 27, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12379 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N2143N according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N2143N: Accident on April 10, 2014 at Colebrook, NH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ERA14CA195Accident on April 10, 2014 at Colebrook, NH: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 140 · operated under 091

The pilot's decision to power out of soft snow with a gusty quartering tailwind which resulted in the tail of the airplane rising and the airplane nosing over.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA14CA195 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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