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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Aviat Aircraft Inc S-2C
N340BF is an Aviat Aircraft Inc S-2C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Simi Valley, California. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending, pending cancellation". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 21, 2003.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aviat Aircraft Inc
- Model
- S-2C · all S-2Cs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Pitts: a welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings under fabric. This is how the Aviat Aircraft Inc S-2 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
- 6055
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO-540 SER · 260 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A3BD6D (octal 50736555)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending, pending cancellationFAA registration status code 19 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2025
- 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 · Normal; AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code NA (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 21, 2003
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00029529
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 661 Bluegrass St
Simi Valley, CA 93065-5460
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N340BF links to the rest of the register
- Aviat Aircraft Inc S-2 57 registered
- Aviat Aircraft Inc 971 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming AEIO-540 series 434 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Simi Valley, CA 94 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,673 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Aviat Aircraft Inc S-2 10 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Aviat Aircraft Inc S-2 14 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-540 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming AEIO-540 series 150 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N340BF.json.
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The public federal record on N340BF, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending, pending cancellation". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 21, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6055 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N340BF 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]
1 NTSB record under N340BF: Accident on October 28, 2014 at Rutland, VT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aviat Aircraft INC S 2C · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing rollout in gusty crosswind conditions, which resulted in a ground loop and subsequent substantial damage to the airplane.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data