Curtiss JN-4
N4740 is a Curtiss JN-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1918. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Staunton, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 19, 2005 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 21, 1992. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss
- Model
- JN-4 · all JN-4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1321
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Curtiss OX-5 · 90 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1918
- Transponder code
- A5D24E (octal 51351116)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 19, 2005
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · July 21, 1992
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00625571
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Root Franklin L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 130 Root Ln
Staunton, VA 24401-9376
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4740, 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 Root Franklin L, an individual, certificate issued December 19, 2005, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 21, 1992, 74 years after the 1918 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 1321 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4740 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 727-235 (serial 19460, cancelled January 11, 1993). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 11, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4740. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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