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N2197V

Cessna 140

N2197V 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 Auburn, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2015 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 12, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
140 · all 140s and related versions
Serial number
14426
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A1DE52 (octal 50357122)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 26, 2015
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · July 12, 1956
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00381662

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bezdicek Taylor K
Type
Individual
Address
20626 SE 334Th St
Auburn, WA 98092-2220

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 N2197V, 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 Bezdicek Taylor K, an individual, certificate issued August 26, 2015, expires August 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 14426 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N2197V 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 N2197V: Accident on February 25, 1990 at Vancouver, WA: 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

SEA90LA050Accident on February 25, 1990 at Vancouver, WA: no injuries, substantial damage.

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

ENGINE LOSS OF POWER WAS DUE TO MOISTURE DAMAGE TO THE COILS IN THE MAGNETOES. DURING THE FORCED LANDING IN AN OPEN FIELD, THE AIRPLANE COLLIDED WITH A FENCE WHICH RESULTED IN SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE. THE AIRPLANE HAD NOT UNDERGONE CURRENT MAINTENANCE INSPECTIONS AND WAS BEING FERRIED FOR MAINTENANCE WHEN THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data