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N840MC

Cessna 172S

Valid Arkansas

N840MC is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Legends Air Center LLC, an LLC in Bentonville, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 2013 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 14, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S10440
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2007
Transponder code
AB80EF (octal 52700357)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 10, 2013
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
August 26, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · February 14, 2007
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00310289

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Legends Air Center LLC
Type
LLC
Address
2440 S W Aviation St
Bentonville, AR 72712

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1991-08-22Bell UH-1B · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N840MC, 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 Legends Air Center LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 10, 2013, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 14, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S10440 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N840MC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell UH-1B (serial 603619, cancelled August 22, 1991). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N840MC: Accident on September 29, 1989 at Plains, GA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ATL89DKG06Accident on September 29, 1989 at Plains, GA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 60-3619

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell UH-1B · operated under 137

IMPROPER MODIFICATION OF THE HELICOPTER BY THE COMPANY/OPERATOR, AND FAILURE OF THE SPRAY BOOM, WHICH RESULTED IN MAST BUMPING, AND SUBSEQUENT FAILURE OF THE MAIN ROTOR ASSEMBLY.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL89DKG06 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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