{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1972-10-06","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"GREELEY","country_code":"US","county_code":"123","cruise_speed_mph":88,"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":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2020-11-16","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2076404","mode_s_code":"52507675","mode_s_hex":"AA8FBD","model":"340","n_number":"N78S","name":"BAS PART SALES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MERION","damage":"DEST","date":"1991-04-04","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"DCA91MA031","probable_cause":"THE POOR JUDGEMENT BY THE CAPTAIN OF THE AIRPLANE TO PERMIT THE IN-FLIGHT INSPECTION AFTER HE HAD DETERMINED TO THE BEST OF HIS ABILITY THAT THE NOSE LANDING GEAR WAS FULLY EXTENDED, THE POOR JUDGMENT OF THE CAPTAIN OF THE HELICOPTER TO CONDUCT THE INSPECTION, AND THE FAILURE OF THE FLIGHTCREW OF THE HELICOPTER TO MAINTAIN SAFE SEPARATION.","registration":"N78S","state":"PA","summary":"Accident on April 4, 1991 at Merion, PA: fatal, destroyed (5 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N78S is a Cessna 340, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Bas Part Sales LLC, an LLC in Greeley, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on  and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 6, 1972.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bas Part Sales LLC, an LLC, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated October 6, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 340-0151 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N78S was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 412 (serial 33114, cancelled September 23, 1991); Cessna T337G (serial P337-0177, cancelled January 22, 1980). 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 N78S: Accident on April 4, 1991 at Merion, PA: fatal, destroyed (5 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":6,"serial_number":"340-0151","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"575 ED BEEGLES LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00942403","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N78S","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1972,"zip":"80631"}