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Cessna 140
N3043S is a Cessna 140, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Spitler John, a partnership in Laramie, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 29, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 140 · all 140s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. Early 120s and 140s have fabric-covered wings; the 140A is all-metal. This is how the Cessna 140 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 12709
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Cont Motor C85-12F · 85 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A33100 (octal 50630400)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 15, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 29, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00894157
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spitler John
- Type
- PartnershipFAA type of owner code 2 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1324 Steele St
Laramie, WY 82070-4725 - Co-owners
- Spitler Mary
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N3043S links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 140 1,839 registered
- Cessna 72,682 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental C85-12F 90 aircraft with this engine series · 85 hp
- Spitler John 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Laramie, WY 48 aircraft registered in this town
- Laramie Regional · LAR
- Wyoming 3,234 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 140 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 140 44 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 140 119 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental C85-12F 7 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N3043S.json.
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The public federal record on N3043S, 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 Spitler John, a partnership, certificate issued March 15, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 29, 2007, 60 years after the 1947 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 12709 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3043S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150G (serial 15066943, cancelled August 17, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N3043S: Accident on July 3, 2024 at Harmony, WY: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 28, 1987 at Roanoke, VA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 140 · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power as a result of the pilot's inadvertent placement of the fuel selector to the "off" position.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150G · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data