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N51CX

Cessna 340A

Valid Michigan

N51CX is a Cessna 340A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Aerodata LLC, an LLC in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying, dated July 15, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
340A · all 340As and related versions
Serial number
340A0533
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1978
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
A65F5E (octal 51457536)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 17, 2009
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Aerial surveying · July 15, 1998
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00642074

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Aerodata LLC
Type
LLC
Address
PO Box 7754
Ann Arbor, MI 48107-7754

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1997-08-18Mcdonnell Douglas DC-8-62 · exported to Iceland · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N51CX, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Aerodata LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 17, 2009, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 15, 1998, 20 years after the 1978 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 340A0533 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N51CX was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-8-62 (serial 46027, cancelled August 18, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N51CX. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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