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Cessna 140A
N5654C is a Cessna 140A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cardiff By the Sea, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 14, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 17, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 140A · all 140As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. Early 120s and 140s have fabric-covered wings; the 140A is all-metal. This is how the Cessna 140 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 15610
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A73C64 (octal 51636144)
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 14, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 14, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · May 17, 1956
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00980316
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gelardo Matthew L
- 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 813
Cardiff By the Sea, CA 92007-0813
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.
Connections how N5654C links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 140 1,839 registered
- Cessna 72,683 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental C90 series 2,149 aircraft with this engine series · 95 hp
- Cardiff By the Sea, CA 20 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,655 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 140 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 140 44 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 140 119 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental C90 series 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental C90 series 18 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N5654C, 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 Gelardo Matthew L, an individual, certificate issued October 14, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15610 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5654C 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5654C. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data