Cessna 421B
N1557G is a Cessna 421B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Airperks LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 9, 1974. 1 document is on file: loan release.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 421B · all 421Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 421 Golden Eagle 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
- 421B0653
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- A0E016 (octal 50160026)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 9, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 9, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 9, 1974
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00050910
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Airperks LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Ste 49
Kalispell, MT 59901-5635
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 1
Connections how N1557G links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 421 Golden Eagle 768 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-520 series 9,485 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Airperks LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Kalispell, MT 1,284 aircraft registered in this town
- Glacier Park International · GPI
- Kalispell City Airport · S27
- Montana 6,049 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 421 Golden Eagle 43 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 421 Golden Eagle 725 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 421 Golden Eagle 234 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N1557G, 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 Airperks LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 9, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 9, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421B0653 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1557G according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Loan release (October 20, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1557G. 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 October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data