Boeing A75N1(PT17)
N66940 is a Boeing A75N1(PT17), a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Desert Flight Academy INC, a corporation in Henderson, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial advertising, dated March 2, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- A75N1(PT17) · all A75N1(PT17)s and related versions
- Serial number
- 75-4716
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A8D8A5 (octal 52154245)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 22, 2022
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial advertising · March 2, 1999
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00483146
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Desert Flight Academy INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 358 Pool Rock Shores Ln
Henderson, NC 27537-6427
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 N66940, 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 Desert Flight Academy INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 22, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 2, 1999, 56 years after the 1943 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 75-4716 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N66940 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 N66940: Accident on October 12, 2010 at Palm Springs, CA: 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: Boeing A75N1(PT17) · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing, resulting in a ground loop.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data