Cessna 140A
N5693C is a Cessna 140A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1950. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Taylorsville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 19, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 2, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 140A · all 140As and related versions
- Serial number
- 15653
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A74B1D (octal 51645435)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 19, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 19, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 2, 1955
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00690436
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Barnes Sammy Dean
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 706 Piney Grove Rd
Taylorsville, NC 28681-3837 - Co-owners
- Marnes Rodney Mack
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.
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The public federal record on N5693C, 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 Barnes Sammy Dean, a co-owned, certificate issued April 19, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 2, 1955, 5 years after the 1950 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 15653 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5693C 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]
1 NTSB record under N5693C: Accident on March 6, 2012 at Mooresville, NC: 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 140A · operated under 091
The separation of the left rudder cable turnbuckle and the pilot’s subsequent loss of directional control during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA12CA215 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