{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1979-09-26","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-09-11","city":"","country_code":"","county_code":"","cruise_speed_mph":90,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17040","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"TSIO-520 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-09-11","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2076405","mode_s_code":"50737057","mode_s_hex":"A3BE2F","model":"340A","n_number":"N340K","name":"","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"NOME","damage":"SUBS","date":"1995-12-18","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"ANC96LA020","probable_cause":"The pilot exceeding the weight and balance limitations of the airplane and improperly utilizing the airplane's elevator trim by selecting full nose up trim.","registration":"N340K","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on December 18, 1995 at Nome, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N340K 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 an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 11, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 26, 1979.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued September 11, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated September 26, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 340A0792 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N340K was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech G18S (serial BA605, cancelled October 10, 1997); Curtiss Wright ROBIN C-1 (serial 514, cancelled April 29, 1948). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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 N340K: Accident on December 18, 1995 at Nome, AK: minor 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":"","region_code":"","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":6,"serial_number":"340A0792","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00851590","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N340K","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":""}