Curtiss Wright P40N-1CU
N740PN is a Curtiss Wright P40N-1CU, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Vintage Flying Machines INC, a corporation in Huntington, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated March 16, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- P40N-1CU · all P40N-1CUs and related versions
- Serial number
- 42-104827
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Allison V1710 SER · 1500 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1943
- Transponder code
- A9F3DC (octal 52371734)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 30, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Limited · March 16, 2022
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01349573
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vintage Flying Machines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1355 Waco Dr
Huntington, IN 46750-0008
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 N740PN, 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 Vintage Flying Machines INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 30, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 16, 2022, 79 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 42-104827 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N740PN 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 N740PN. 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 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