Cessna 340
N69542 is a Cessna 340, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Dirty Side Down LLC, an LLC in Hobbs, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2015 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 29, 1974.
Where is it now Last seen October 12 at 1:13 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 340 · all 340s 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 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
- 340-0362
- 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
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 88 mph
- Transponder code
- A94048 (octal 52240110)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 23, 2015
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 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 · August 29, 1974
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00540407
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dirty Side Down LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 5630
Hobbs, NM 88240
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 1
Connections how N69542 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 340 707 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental TSIO-520 series 4,113 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Dirty Side Down LLC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Hobbs, NM 46 aircraft registered in this town
- Lea County Regional · HOB
- New Mexico 3,109 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 340 33 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 340 473 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 340 160 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental TSIO-520 series 36 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-520 series 412 reports since 1995
- Where N69542 is now · Last seen October 12 at 1:13 pm.
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The public federal record on N69542, 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 Dirty Side Down LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 23, 2015, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 29, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 340-0362 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N69542 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T-50 (serial 1664, cancelled December 6, 1949). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N69542. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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