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A Curtiss Wright P-40, the same model family as N740PN
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N740PN

Curtiss Wright P40N-1CU

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIndiana

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.

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Aircraft

Maker
Curtiss Wright
Model
P40N-1CU · all P40N-1CUs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Curtiss Wright P-40 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
42-104827
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 · Allison V1710 SER · 1500 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
1
Year built
1943
Transponder code
A9F3DC (octal 52371734)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
July 30, 2025
Expires
July 31, 2032
Last FAA action
July 30, 2025
Airworthiness
LimitedFAA airworthiness class code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · March 16, 2022
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01349573

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Vintage Flying Machines INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
1355 Waco Dr
Huntington, IN 46750-0008

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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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Vintage Flying Machines INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 30, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42-104827 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N740PN according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N740PN. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data