Cessna 340A
N740WJ 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 Alm Holding LLC, an LLC in Winton, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 2016 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 2, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- 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 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
- 340A0740
- 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-NB · 310 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A9F487 (octal 52372207)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 10, 2016
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 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 · December 2, 2010
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00093432
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alm Holding 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
- 9575 Walnut Ave
Winton, CA 95388-9551
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 N740WJ links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 340 706 registered
- Cessna 72,678 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental TSIO-520-NB 52 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Alm Holding LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Winton, CA 5 aircraft registered in this town
- California 28,279 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-NB 32 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-520-NB 310 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N740WJ, 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 Alm Holding LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 10, 2016, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 2, 2010, 31 years after the 1979 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 340A0740 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N740WJ 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]
1 NTSB record under N740WJ: Accident on August 18, 2022 at Watsonville, CA: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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 340A · operated under 091
The failure of the pilot of the multi-engine airplane to see and avoid the single-engine airplane while performing a straight-in approach for landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 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 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data