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Piper PA-34-220T
N240R is a Piper PA-34-220T, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Westex Telco LLC, an LLC in Abilene, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 5, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 19, 2014.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 10:13 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-34-220T · all PA-34-220Ts 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 Piper PA-34 Seneca 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
- 3449496
- 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-360-RB · 220 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A23176 (octal 50430566)
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 5, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 5, 2023
- 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 · December 19, 2014
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01167683
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Westex Telco 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
- 500 Chestnut St #1901
Abilene, TX 79602
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 N240R links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-34 Seneca 996 registered
- Piper 44,839 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental TSIO-360-RB 20 aircraft with this engine series · 220 hp
- Westex Telco LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Abilene, TX 110 aircraft registered in this town
- Abilene Regional · ABI
- Texas 29,979 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-34 Seneca 52 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-34 Seneca 904 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-34 Seneca 349 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental TSIO-360-RB 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-360-RB 96 reports since 1995
- Where N240R is now · Last seen October 16 at 10:13 am.
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The public federal record on N240R, 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 Westex Telco LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 5, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3449496 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N240R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 8KCAB-180 (serial 635-80, cancelled July 21, 2009). 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 N240R: Accident on September 3, 2007 at Mammoth Lakes, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Bellanca 8KCAB-180 · operated under 091
The pilot’s inadvertent encounter with downdrafts that exceeded the climb capability of the airplane. Contributing to the accident were the downdrafts, high density altitude, and mountainous terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data