Cessna 140
N72971 is a Cessna 140, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 14, 2008 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 25, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 140 · all 140s and related versions
- Serial number
- 10172
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A9C862 (octal 52344142)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 14, 2008
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 25, 1955
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00231637
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hammerle Tye F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5324 38Th Ave
Kenosha, WI 53144-2720
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 N72971, 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 Hammerle Tye F, an individual, certificate issued July 14, 2008, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 25, 1955, 9 years after the 1946 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 10172 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N72971 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 N72971: Accident on August 10, 2003 at Morrilton, AR: 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 140 · operated under 091
The deterioration of the fuel line resulting in fuel contamination and the loss of engine power.
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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data