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N9440L

American Aviation AA-1A

Valid Texas

N9440L is an American Aviation AA-1A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Brenham, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 30, 1971.

Aircraft

Maker
American Aviation
Model
AA-1A · all AA-1As and related versions
Serial number
AA1A-0240
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1971
Cruising speed
84 mph
Transponder code
AD1E67 (octal 53217147)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 14, 2020
Expires
May 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · September 30, 1971
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00780131

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Luedemann Douglas S
Type
Individual
Address
209 Oak Hill Dr
Brenham, TX 77833-9340

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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 · 5 clear

The public federal record on N9440L, 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 Luedemann Douglas S, an individual, certificate issued May 14, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 30, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AA1A-0240 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N9440L 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N9440L. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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