Cessna 195
N3893V is a Cessna 195, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1949. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2003 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 28, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 195 · all 195s and related versions
- Serial number
- 7365
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jacobs R755A SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1949
- Cruising speed
- 146 mph
- Transponder code
- A47F8E (octal 51077616)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 2003
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 28, 1956
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00110524
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sorenson Bennett L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3701 S Fairlawn St
Wichita, KS 67215-1605
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 N3893V, 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 Sorenson Bennett L, an individual, certificate issued May 8, 2003, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 28, 1956, 7 years after the 1949 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 7365 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3893V 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 N3893V: Accident on October 15, 1989 at San Antonio, TX: minor 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 195 · operated under 091
PILOT'S IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM A BOUNCED LANDING AND SUBSEQUENT STALL OF THE AIRCRAFT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW90LA011 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