{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2003-03-21","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Acrobatic","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"SIMI VALLEY","country_code":"US","county_code":"111","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41568","engine_horsepower":260,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"AEIO-540 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-09-02","maker":"Aviat Aircraft Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AVIAT AIRCRAFT INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8130001","mode_s_code":"50736555","mode_s_hex":"A3BD6D","model":"S-2C","n_number":"N340BF","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Rutland","damage":"SUBS","date":"2014-10-28","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA15CA037","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing rollout in gusty crosswind conditions, which resulted in a ground loop and subsequent substantial damage to the airplane.","registration":"N340BF","state":"VT","summary":"Accident on October 28, 2014 at Rutland, VT: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N340BF is an Aviat Aircraft Inc S-2C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Simi Valley, California. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending, pending cancellation\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 21, 2003.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending, pending cancellation\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; acrobatic, dated March 21, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6055 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N340BF according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N340BF: Accident on October 28, 2014 at Rutland, VT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"6055","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Registration pending, pending cancellation","status_code":"19","status_short":"Pending cancellation","street":"661 BLUEGRASS ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00029529","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N340BF","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2003,"zip":"930655460"}