Cessna 340A
N531M 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 High Cotton Aero LLC, an LLC in Murray, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 31, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 340A · all 340As and related versions
- Serial number
- 340A0534
- 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
- A6B537 (octal 51532467)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 10, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 3, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 31, 1978
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00852114
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- High Cotton Aero LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 411 N 4Th St
Murray, KY 42071-2003
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N531M, 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 High Cotton Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 10, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 31, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 340A0534 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N531M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 150M (serial 15077673, cancelled December 15, 2008); Lincoln PT (serial 310, cancelled January 11, 1938). 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 N531M: Accident on July 20, 2007 at Woodland, CA: minor 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: Cessna 150M · operated under 091
An in-flight collision with a bird. A factor in the accident was the deteriorated aircraft performance capability due to the increased drag that made continued flight impossible.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX07CA224 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