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N89297

Cessna 140

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesColorado

N89297 is a Cessna 140, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Just Plane Flying LLC, an LLC in Fort Collins, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 3, 2009 and expires on August 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
140 · all 140s and related versions
Serial number
8323
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · None NONE
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
AC5075 (octal 53050165)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
February 3, 2009
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00343578

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Just Plane Flying LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
4330 New Bedford Dr
Fort Collins, CO 80525-3332

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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N89297, 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 Just Plane Flying LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 3, 2009, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8323 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N89297 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N89297: Accident on March 29, 1996 at Elkin, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

ATL96LA072Accident on March 29, 1996 at Elkin, NC: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 140 · operated under 091

failure of the pilot to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing, which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 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