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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Saab-Fairchild 340A
N651BC is a Saab-Fairchild 340A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 37 seats. It is registered to Aviation Inventory Resources INC, a corporation in Alvarado, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 13, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 5, 1987.
Where is it now Last seen October 13 at 10:28 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Saab-Fairchild
- Model
- 340A · all 340As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Saab-Fairchild 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
- 340A-076
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Ge CT7-SER · 1600 hp
- Seats
- 37
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A8908D (octal 52110215)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 13, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 13, 2026
- 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 5, 1987
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00915370
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aviation Inventory Resources 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
- 12240 e Fm 917
Alvarado, TX 76009-6183
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.
Connections how N651BC links to the rest of the register
- Saab-Fairchild 340 8 registered
- Saab-Fairchild 8 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- General Electric CT7-series 69 aircraft with this engine series · 1600 hp
- Aviation Inventory Resources INC 24 aircraft in the fleet
- Alvarado, TX 46 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Saab-Fairchild 340 119 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Saab-Fairchild 340 8,972 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Saab-Fairchild 340 78 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the General Electric CT7-series 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the General Electric CT7-series 253 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Chip Detector, activated · 2022-11-03
- Report filed on this aircraft: Wire Harness, none · 2022-01-28
- Report filed on this aircraft: Unknown, haze · 2020-11-16
- Where N651BC is now · Last seen October 13 at 10:28 am.
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The public federal record on N651BC, 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 Aviation Inventory Resources INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 13, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 340A-076 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N651BC 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N651BC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data