Textron Aviation Inc T240
N234AD is a Textron Aviation Inc T240, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Radar Ventures LLC, an LLC in Truckee, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated October 19, 2015.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- T240 · all T240s and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. The TTx, from the Columbia design: carbon fibre. This is how the Cessna T240 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
- T24002073
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-550-C · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A21760 (octal 50413540)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 24, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 24, 2024
- 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 · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 19, 2015
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01193491
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Radar Ventures LLC
- 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
- PO Box 837
Truckee, CA 96160-0837
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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 N234AD links to the rest of the register
- Cessna T240 136 registered
- Textron Aviation Inc 4,417 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental TSIO-550-C 480 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Radar Ventures LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Truckee, CA 78 aircraft registered in this town
- Truckee-Tahoe Airport · TRK
- California 27,658 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna T240 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna T240 14 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna T240 19 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental TSIO-550-C 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-550-C 81 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N234AD, 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 Radar Ventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 24, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated October 19, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T24002073 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N234AD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Smith AEROSTAR 601P (serial 61P0418151, cancelled date not given). 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 N234AD: Accident on January 5, 1984 at Salt Lake City, UT: minor 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: Piper AEROSTAR 601P · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data