Cessna 140A
N7818B is a Cessna 140A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Knoxville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated August 27, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 140A · all 140As and related versions
- Serial number
- 15617
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AA97AF (octal 52513657)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 6, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 6, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · August 27, 1968
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00944880
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ritenour John C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1931 Bernhurst Dr
Knoxville, TN 37918-3104
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N7818B, 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 Ritenour John C, an individual, certificate issued June 6, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15617 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7818B 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 N7818B. 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