Cessna 140
N3527V is a Cessna 140, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Poplar Grove Airmotive INC, a corporation in Poplar Grove, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2015 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 1, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 140 · all 140s and related versions
- Serial number
- 14796
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A3EF9C (octal 50767634)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2015
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 1, 1955
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00322833
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Poplar Grove Airmotive INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 11619 Il Route 76
Poplar Grove, IL 61065-8827
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.
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The public federal record on N3527V, 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 Poplar Grove Airmotive INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 28, 2015, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 1, 1955, 7 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 14796 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3527V 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]
1 NTSB record under N3527V: Accident on February 23, 2008 at Poplar Grove, IL: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 140 · operated under 091
The left wing skin "fabric patch" separated from the wing ribs and spars for an undetermined reason.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI08CA087 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data