{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1955-10-19","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-05-06","city":"SUTTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"170","cruise_speed_mph":90,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17009","engine_horsepower":95,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"C90 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-12","maker":"Champion","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CHAMPION","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"21101NM","mode_s_code":"51232125","mode_s_hex":"A53455","model":"7EC","n_number":"N4340C","name":"ANDERSEN ANDY","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Valdez","damage":"DEST","date":"2022-07-12","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ANC22FA053","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s decision to continue visual flight rules flight into instrument meteorological conditions which resulted in loss of control and collision with terrain.","registration":"N4340C","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on July 12, 2022 at Valdez, AK: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4340C is a Champion 7EC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sutton, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 6, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 19, 1955.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Andersen Andy, an individual, certificate issued May 6, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate, dated October 19, 1955, consistent with the 1955 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7EC-356 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N4340C 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 N4340C: Accident on July 12, 2022 at Valdez, AK: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"7EC-356","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 113","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00325420","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4340C","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1955,"zip":"996740113"}