COMMON
C340
Cessna 340
The Cabin Twin
“Climb the stairs, close the door, cruise high.”
Cessna (Textron) · private
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Length
34 ft 4 in
Wingspan
38 ft 1 in
Max speed
200 kts
Range
1,000 nmi
Ceiling
29,800 ft
Engines
2x Continental TSIO-520 (310 hp each)
Crew
1
Max passengers
5
Typical config
pressurized 6-seat cabin
Built
1,280+
The 340 gave piston-twin owners the airline experience: a pressurized cabin you enter by fold-down airstair, cruising in the smooth air at 20,000 feet while weather grinds along below. It's the bridge between flying a plane and traveling in one.
Fun fact
Pressurization was its whole sales pitch — the 340 let owners fly over weather that keeps most light twins on the ground.
How to spot one
Low-wing twin with tip tanks like a 310, but a rounder, fatter fuselage with small cabin windows and an airstair door on the left side.
Crews call it
The Three-Forty
Sounds like
Turbocharged Continentals with a muffled, high-altitude hum — often heard well above the pattern
Related
One might be overhead right now.
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