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Aircraft reference

What each type asks of you, and what we cannot tell you.

Generated from the FAA aircraft registry. Where the registry is blank, the page says so rather than filling it in.

Six types are published, each answering the same questions: does it need a type rating, a multi-engine rating, a high-performance or complex endorsement — and which of those the registry cannot actually answer.

Cessna 172N

The trainer almost every career starts in.

Beech 58

Light piston twin. Multi-engine, no type rating.

Cessna 310R

The other light twin you will meet early.

Piper PA-34-200

Seneca. The multi trainer.

Beech C90A

King Air. Where turbine time usually begins.

Textron 700

Turbofan — and therefore a type rating.

The horsepower figure that decides a high-performance endorsement is not in the FAA registry, so every one of these pages says “we don’t hold this” in the places it does not know — which is the reason they are worth reading rather than a reason to wait.