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N4293N

Cessna 140

N4293N 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 Springfield Flying Service LLC, an LLC in Columbia, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2015 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 30, 1955.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
140 · all 140s and related versions
Serial number
13764
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1947
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A51FDC (octal 51217734)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 12, 2015
Expires
December 31, 2028
Last FAA action
July 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · September 30, 1955
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00291984

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Springfield Flying Service LLC
Type
LLC
Address
10767 Airport Rd
Columbia, CA 95310-9727

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N4293N, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Springfield Flying Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 12, 2015, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 30, 1955, 8 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 13764 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4293N according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4293N: Accident on June 25, 1997 at Columbia, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX97LA223Accident on June 25, 1997 at Columbia, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 140 · operated under 091

the student pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the aircraft during a bounced landing recovery.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX97LA223 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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