Boeing A75N1(PT17)
N90840 is a Boeing A75N1(PT17), a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Montgomery, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 29, 2016 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated August 15, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- A75N1(PT17) · all A75N1(PT17)s and related versions
- Serial number
- 75-1619
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor W670 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- AC8FE1 (octal 53107741)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 29, 2016
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; To show compliance with regulations · August 15, 1978
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00671181
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith James O
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 118 Colina Vista Way
Montgomery, TX 77316-7602
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N90840, 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 Smith James O, an individual, certificate issued December 29, 2016, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 15, 1978, 35 years after the 1943 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 75-1619 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N90840 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Coward 1 (serial 1, cancelled May 23, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N90840: Accident on May 22, 1987 at San Ardo, CA: serious 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: Boeing A75N1 · operated under 091
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 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