Cessna 140
N2278N 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 Butler, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 1, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 2, 1956. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 140 · all 140s and related versions
- Serial number
- 12518
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A1FE7F (octal 50377177)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 1, 2022
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 2, 1956
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00882895
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tucker Christian T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 108 W Fort Scott St
Butler, MO 64730-2031
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 1
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The public federal record on N2278N, 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 Tucker Christian T, an individual, certificate issued November 1, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12518 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2278N according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 17, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2278N. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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