Cessna 340A
N8637K is a Cessna 340A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Commonwealth Capital CORP, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2009 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 26, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 340A · all 340As and related versions
- Serial number
- 340A0604
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 2 motors · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- ABDD53 (octal 52756523)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 19, 2009
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 26, 1978
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00542451
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Commonwealth Capital CORP
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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
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The public federal record on N8637K, 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 Commonwealth Capital CORP, a corporation, certificate issued August 19, 2009, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 26, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 340A0604 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8637K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108-1 (serial 108-1637, cancelled June 1, 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]
1 NTSB record under N8637K: Accident on July 16, 1990 at Truckee, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 340-A · operated under 091
THE PILOTS LOSS OF BRAKE PERFORMANCE DUE TO HYDROPLANING.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data