Cessna 140A
N9687A is a Cessna 140A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1950. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Burnet, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 19, 2012 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 21, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 140A · all 140As and related versions
- Serial number
- 15408
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AD7D2C (octal 53276454)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 19, 2012
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · November 21, 1955
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00974140
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Holbrook James A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1845 County Road 203
Burnet, TX 78611-6289
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 N9687A, 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 Holbrook James A, an individual, certificate issued September 19, 2012, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 21, 1955, 5 years after the 1950 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 15408 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9687A 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 N9687A: Accident on September 11, 1989 at Austin, TX: 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 140A · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL OF THE AIDRCRAFT. THE GUSTY CROSSWIND CONDITION WAS A RELATED FACTOR.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data