Cessna 172B
N7440X is a Cessna 172B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Watonwan Flyers INC, a corporation in Saint James, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 22, 1991 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 31, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172B · all 172Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17247940
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AA03D4 (octal 52401724)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 22, 1991
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 31, 1960
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00232507
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Watonwan Flyers INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 69070 305Th St
Saint James, MN 56081-3337
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N7440X, 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 Watonwan Flyers INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 22, 1991, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated October 31, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17247940 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7440X 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 N7440X. 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 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