Cessna 140A
N3788V is a Cessna 140A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1949. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 140A · all 140As and related versions
- Serial number
- 15209
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1949
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A45507 (octal 51052407)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 3, 2009
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00770184
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Graves Kenneth D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2918 Bayshore Dr N
La Crosse, WI 54603-1003
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 N3788V, 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 Graves Kenneth D, an individual, certificate issued December 3, 2009, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15209 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3788V 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 N3788V: Accident on June 26, 1996 at Edinboro, PA: 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 140A · operated under 091
The pilot's improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing and subsequent nose over. The tailwind was a related factor.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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