Cessna 140
N89965 is a Cessna 140, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Salinas, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 14, 2016 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 11, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 140 · all 140s and related versions
- Serial number
- 9017
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AC6A0B (octal 53065013)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 14, 2016
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · December 11, 1957
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00671501
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- King Aubrey R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 739 Fairfax Dr
Salinas, CA 93901-1250
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.
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The public federal record on N89965, 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 King Aubrey R, an individual, certificate issued December 14, 2016, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 11, 1957, 11 years after the 1946 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N89965 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]
1 NTSB record under N89965: Accident on July 8, 2016 at Salinas, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 140 · operated under 091
The fatigue failure of a bulkhead-skin joint that supported the main landing gear leg, which resulted in the collapse of the left main landing gear. Contributing to the failure were the non-original structural configuration of the 60-year-old airplane and the relative inaccessibility for inspection or cleaning of the structure in the region of the fatigue failure.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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