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A Cessna 340, the same model family as N60E
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026
N60E

Cessna 340A

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesArkansas

N60E is a Cessna 340A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Dawson Aircraft INC, a corporation in Clinton, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 28, 1979.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
340A · all 340As and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 340 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
340A0663
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
6
Year built
1979
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
A7C54A (octal 51742512)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
March 2, 2020
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 28, 1979
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00732830

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dawson Aircraft INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 910
Clinton, AR 72031-0910

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 4

1981-01-13Cessna T337G · exported to Germany · Valid registration
1957-11-05Howard Aircraft DGA-15P · Valid registration
1951-11-09Cessna T-50 · Valid registration
1930-05-09Lincoln Aircraft Co LINCOLN PAGE 3 · Valid registration

Connections how N60E links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Airworthiness
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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N60E.json.

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The public federal record on N60E, 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 Dawson Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 2, 2020, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 28, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 340A0663 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N60E was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Cessna T337G (serial P3370124, cancelled January 13, 1981); Howard Aircraft DGA-15P (serial 502, cancelled November 5, 1957); Cessna T-50 (serial 6655, cancelled November 9, 1951). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N60E: Accident on June 25, 2018 at Orlando, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

WPR18LA179Accident on June 25, 2018 at Orlando, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 340A · operated under 091

The pilot's delayed decision to discontinue the takeoff when confronted with abnormal acceleration and airspeed indication; the reason for the abnormal acceleration could not be determined based on the available information.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data