Cessna 140A
N4242H 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 Sweetwater, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 23, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 140A · all 140As and related versions
- Serial number
- 15304
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1949
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A50D21 (octal 51206441)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 29, 2015
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 23, 1956
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00591814
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Webb Greg
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 251 Red Pond Rd
Sweetwater, TN 37874-5623
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4242H, 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 Webb Greg, an individual, certificate issued April 29, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 23, 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 15304 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4242H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-12 (serial 12-2457, cancelled March 24, 1969). 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]
1 NTSB record under N4242H: Accident on April 30, 2016 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 pilot's visual disorientation and failure to monitor the altimeter during a night approach, which resulted in controlled flight into terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA212 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
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