Aeronca 15AC
N1421H is an Aeronca 15AC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1950. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Little Falls, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; to show compliance with regulations, dated December 6, 1973.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 15AC · all 15ACs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Aeronca 15 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 15AC-482
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-435 · 175 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- A0ACA1 (octal 50126241)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and development; To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 10 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 6, 1973
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00421680
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nelson Chester C
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 118 1St St NE
Little Falls, MN 56345-2602
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N1421H links to the rest of the register
- Aeronca 15 162 registered
- Aeronca 3,953 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-435 88 aircraft with this engine series · 175 hp
- Little Falls, MN 48 aircraft registered in this town
- Little Falls/Morrison County-Lindbergh Field · LXL
- Minnesota 6,946 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Aeronca 15 29 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-435 4 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N1421H, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Nelson Chester C, an individual, certificate issued July 19, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 6, 1973, 23 years after the 1950 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. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15AC-482 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1421H according to the deregistered file. [2]
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. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1421H. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data