Cessna 320A
N3040R is a Cessna 320A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Midland, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2003 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 24, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 320A · all 320As and related versions
- Serial number
- 320A-0040
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor TSI0-470-B · 260 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 183 mph
- Transponder code
- A33096 (octal 50630226)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 29, 2003
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 24, 1965
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00701193
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sturgeon Newton Charles
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 60708
Midland, TX 79711-0708
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N3040R, 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 Sturgeon Newton Charles, an individual, certificate issued October 29, 2003, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 24, 1965, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 320A-0040 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3040R according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3040R. 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 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