Cessna 340A
N242KA is a Cessna 340A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Big River Air LLC, an LLC in Jackson, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 30, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 340A · all 340As and related versions
- Serial number
- 340A1802
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1983
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A2384F (octal 50434117)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 14, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 14, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 30, 1983
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00830693
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Big River Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5440 Highland Dr
Jackson, MS 39206-3501
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N242KA, 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 Big River Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 14, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 30, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 340A1802 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N242KA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Allen Steven RI 162F (serial 6307, cancelled October 8, 2004). 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 N242KA: Accident on June 3, 2001 at Jerseyville, IL: 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: Allen Rotorway 162F · operated under 091
the improper autorotation by the pilot. Contributing factors were the engine failure for undetermined reason(s) and the muddy terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI01LA152 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data