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N2440L

Cessna 172H

Valid Alabama

N2440L is a Cessna 172H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Arley, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 23, 1966.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172H · all 172Hs and related versions
Serial number
17255640
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1966
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A2413E (octal 50440476)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 16, 2021
Expires
November 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 23, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · December 23, 1966
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00232622

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Eads Kevin C
Type
Individual
Address
200 Summer Place Ln
Arley, AL 35541-2944

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 · 4 clear

The public federal record on N2440L, 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 Eads Kevin C, an individual, certificate issued November 16, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 23, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17255640 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N2440L 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

2 NTSB records under N2440L: Accident on May 13, 2000 at Mesquite, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on November 27, 1996 at Hammond, LA: 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 2

FTW00LA148Accident on May 13, 2000 at Mesquite, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172H · operated under 091

The flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the student pilot during the landing.

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

FTW97LA050Accident on November 27, 1996 at Hammond, LA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172H · operated under 091

the pilot's inadequate preflight, resulting in the total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.

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 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