Cessna 340
N78S is a Cessna 340, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Bas Part Sales LLC, an LLC in Greeley, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 6, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 340 · all 340s and related versions
- Serial number
- 340-0151
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 88 mph
- Transponder code
- AA8FBD (octal 52507675)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- November 16, 2020
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 6, 1972
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00942403
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bas Part Sales LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 575 Ed Beegles Ln
Greeley, CO 80631
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
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The public federal record on N78S, 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 Bas Part Sales LLC, an LLC, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 6, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 340-0151 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78S was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 412 (serial 33114, cancelled September 23, 1991); Cessna T337G (serial P337-0177, cancelled January 22, 1980). 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 N78S: Accident on April 4, 1991 at Merion, PA: fatal, destroyed (5 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: Bell 412SP · operated under 091
THE POOR JUDGEMENT BY THE CAPTAIN OF THE AIRPLANE TO PERMIT THE IN-FLIGHT INSPECTION AFTER HE HAD DETERMINED TO THE BEST OF HIS ABILITY THAT THE NOSE LANDING GEAR WAS FULLY EXTENDED, THE POOR JUDGMENT OF THE CAPTAIN OF THE HELICOPTER TO CONDUCT THE INSPECTION, AND THE FAILURE OF THE FLIGHTCREW OF THE HELICOPTER TO MAINTAIN SAFE SEPARATION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA91MA031 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