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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Carlson Aircraft SPARROW
N5240 is a Carlson Aircraft SPARROW, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1996. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Calcutta, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 17, 2007 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 31, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Carlson Aircraft
- Model
- SPARROW
- Serial number
- CA-118F
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 503ULDCDI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A69A22 (octal 51515042)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 17, 2007
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 31, 2007
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00425869
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nicholson Larry C
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 2538
Calcutta, OH 43920-0538
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N5240 links to the rest of the register
- Carlson Aircraft 3 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 503ULDCDI 71 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Calcutta, OH 2 aircraft registered in this town
- Ohio 8,533 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N5240, 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 Nicholson Larry C, an individual, certificate issued October 17, 2007, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 31, 2007, 11 years after the 1996 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 CA-118F for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5240 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stimson JEANIES TEENIE (serial 5793, cancelled December 22, 1977). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5240. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data