Convair 240-1
N240HH is a Convair 240-1, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 42 seats. It is registered to Planes of Fame Air Museum, a corporation in Chino, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 3, 2005 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated July 21, 1987.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Convair
- Model
- 240-1
- Serial number
- 47
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
- Seats
- 42
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 210 mph
- Transponder code
- A230B6 (octal 50430266)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 3, 2005
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 21, 1987
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00842482
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Planes of Fame Air Museum
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 14998 Cal Aero Dr
Chino, CA 91710-9056
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N240HH links to the rest of the register
- Convair 46 aircraft on the register
- Pratt & Whitney R-2800 series 173 aircraft with this engine series · 2000 hp
- Planes Of Fame Air Museum 64 aircraft in the fleet
- Chino, CA 178 aircraft registered in this town
- Chino Airport · CNO
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 series 446 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N240HH, 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 Planes of Fame Air Museum, a corporation, certificate issued February 3, 2005, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 21, 1987, 39 years after the 1948 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 47 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N240HH 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 N240HH. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data