{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-08-01","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2019-06-17","city":"GRASS VALLEY","country_code":"US","county_code":"057","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"01514","engine_horsepower":904,"engine_maker":"AIRESEARCH","engine_model":"TPE331 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-11","maker":"Gulfstream Aerospace","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3980400","mode_s_code":"52700274","mode_s_hex":"AB80BC","model":"840","n_number":"N840KB","name":"ORION AERIAL LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Reno","damage":"SUBS","date":"2023-10-26","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"WPR24LA025","probable_cause":"The pilot applicant\u2019s excessive nose down pitch, and the check pilot\u2019s delayed remedial action, which resulted in an impact with terrain.","registration":"N840KB","state":"NV","summary":"Accident on October 26, 2023 at Reno, NV: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N840KB is a Gulfstream Aerospace 840, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1980. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Orion Aerial LLC, an LLC in Grass Valley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 17, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 1, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Orion Aerial LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 17, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 1, 2001, 21 years after the 1980 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 11640 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N840KB 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 N840KB: Accident on October 26, 2023 at Reno, NV: serious 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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":11,"serial_number":"11640","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"15425 BEYERS LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00725850","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N840KB","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1980,"zip":"959497666"}