Cessna 340A
N1920E is a Cessna 340A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Happy Trails Flight Training & Charters LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 5, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 24, 1979.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 340A · all 340As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 340 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 340A0669
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A171F6 (octal 50270766)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 5, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 5, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 24, 1979
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00102900
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Happy Trails Flight Training & Charters LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3243 Airport Rd
Helena, MT 59601-1220
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
Connections how N1920E links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 340 707 registered
- Cessna 72,683 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental TSIO-520 series 4,113 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Happy Trails Flight Training & Charters LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Helena, MT 536 aircraft registered in this town
- Helena Regional · HLN
- Montana 6,044 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 340 33 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 340 473 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 340 160 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental TSIO-520 series 36 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-520 series 412 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Crankshaft, broken · 2000-07-17
- Report filed on this aircraft: Crankshaft, broken · 2000-06-23
- Report filed on this aircraft: Torque Tube, weld broken · 1996-04-30
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The public federal record on N1920E, 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 Happy Trails Flight Training & Charters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 5, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 24, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 340A0669 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1920E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-5487, cancelled August 5, 1949). 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 N1920E: Accident on October 2, 2006 at Kalispell, MT: 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 340A · operated under 091
The fracture of the adjusting bellcrank in overstress due to binding in a linkage forward of the bell crank.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data