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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Saab-Scania SAAB 340B
N80AU is a Saab-Scania SAAB 340B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1998. It has 37 seats. It is registered to Aurora Flight Sciences CORP, a corporation in Manassas, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 21, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 27, 1998. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Saab-Scania
- Model
- SAAB 340B · all SAAB 340Bs 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-Scania SAAB 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
- 340B437
- 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
- 1998
- Transponder code
- AADF97 (octal 52557627)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 21, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 8, 2025
- 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 · May 27, 1998
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00557121
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aurora Flight Sciences CORP
- 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
- 9950 Wakeman Dr
Manassas, VA 20110-2702
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 1
Connections how N80AU links to the rest of the register
- Saab-Scania SAAB 340 42 registered
- Saab-Scania 49 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
- Aurora Flight Sciences CORP 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Manassas, VA 167 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the General Electric CT7-series 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the General Electric CT7-series 253 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N80AU, 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 Aurora Flight Sciences CORP, a corporation, certificate issued September 21, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated May 27, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 340B437 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N80AU according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 23, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N80AU. 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