Cessna 140A
N9688A is a Cessna 140A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1952. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Panama City, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 7, 2000 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 18, 1952.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 140A · all 140As and related versions
- Serial number
- 15409
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1952
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AD7D4F (octal 53276517)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 7, 2000
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 18, 1952
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00724140
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Herschel C III
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 204 Sukoshi Dr
Panama City, FL 32404-7710
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 N9688A, 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 Herschel C III, an individual, certificate issued November 7, 2000, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 18, 1952, consistent with the 1952 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15409 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9688A 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 N9688A: Accident on February 28, 1982 at Wagoner, OK: 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: Cessna 140A · 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 August 27, 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