{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1992-04-22","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1992-02-21","city":"LARIMORE","country_code":"US","county_code":"035","cruise_speed_mph":82,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"67061","engine_horsepower":800,"engine_maker":"WRIGHT","engine_model":"R-1300-1B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-18","maker":"Rockwell International","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7630202","mode_s_code":"51232134","mode_s_hex":"A5345C","model":"S-2R","n_number":"N4340K","name":"MORTEN JOHN E DBA","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CHICAGO","damage":"SUBS","date":"1990-03-17","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI90LA099","probable_cause":"FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE ACCIDENT AIRPLANE DURING AN ATTEMPTED LANDING.","registration":"N4340K","state":"IL","summary":"Accident on March 17, 1990 at Chicago, IL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"MORTEN AIR SERVICE","plain_english":"N4340K is a Rockwell International S-2R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1975. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Larimore, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 1992 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 22, 1992.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Morten John E DBA, an individual, certificate issued February 21, 1992, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 22, 1992, 17 years after the 1975 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5080R for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4340K was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28RT-201T (serial 28R8431016, cancelled September 26, 1990); Ryan NAVION (serial NAV-4-1340, cancelled June 22, 1973). 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 N4340K: Accident on March 17, 1990 at Chicago, IL: 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":1,"serial_number":"5080R","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"ND","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 513","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00523485","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4340K","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1975,"zip":"58251"}