Saab SAAB 340B
N331TB is a Saab SAAB 340B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1992. It has 37 seats. It is registered to Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, a corporation in Lexington, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; crew training, dated September 5, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Saab
- Model
- SAAB 340B
- Serial number
- 340B-331
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · Ge CT7-9B · 1750 hp
- Seats
- 37
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A39B31 (octal 50715461)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 18, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 16, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; Crew training · September 5, 2025
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 01278448
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 244 Wood St
Lexington, MA 02421-6426
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N331TB, 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 Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, a corporation, certificate issued August 18, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 5, 2025, 33 years after the 1992 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 340B-331 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N331TB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Underland G/Finstrom D BROKAW BULLET (serial 2GTP, cancelled May 19, 2015). 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 N331TB: Accident on July 29, 1999 at Oshkosh, WI: 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: Underwood BROKAW BULLET · operated under 091
the pilot failed to maintain directional control of the airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI99FA263 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