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Saab-Scania SAAB 340B
N253AE is a Saab-Scania SAAB 340B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 37 seats. It is registered to Bank of Utah Trustee, a corporation in Salt Lake City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a special flight permit airworthiness certificate for delivery or export, dated October 18, 1991. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Castle Aviation INC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 11:34 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Saab-Scania
- Model
- SAAB 340B · all SAAB 340Bs 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 Saab-Scania SAAB 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
- 340B-253
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Ge CT7-SER · 1600 hp
- Fuel
- Electricity
- Seats
- 37
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A262A8 (octal 50461250)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 13, 2018
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Special flight permitFAA airworthiness class code 8 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Delivery or exportFAA certificate purpose code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 18, 1991
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00075591
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bank of Utah Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 50 S 200 e Ste 110
Salt Lake City, UT 84111-1617
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 1
Connections how N253AE links to the rest of the register
- Saab-Scania SAAB 340 42 registered
- Saab-Scania 49 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Castle Aviation INC · charter operator
- General Electric CT7-series 69 aircraft with this engine series · 1600 hp
- Bank Of Utah Trustee 1,812 aircraft in the fleet
- Salt Lake City, UT 2,926 aircraft registered in this town
- Salt Lake City International · SLC
- South Valley Regional · SVR
- Utah 8,350 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the General Electric CT7-series 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the General Electric CT7-series 253 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Unknown, multiple fail · 2008-01-23
- Report filed on this aircraft: Power Supply, inoperative · 2008-01-15
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bolt, unknown · 2007-10-05
- Where N253AE is now · Last seen Thursday at 11:34 am.
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The public federal record on N253AE, 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 Bank of Utah Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued August 13, 2018, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Special flight permit certificate for delivery or export; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 340B-253 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N253AE according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 23, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N253AE. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data