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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Smith AEROSTAR 600
N21VT is a Smith AEROSTAR 600, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Cle Aviation LLC, an LLC in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 2008 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith
- Model
- AEROSTAR 600 · all AEROSTAR 600s 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 Smith AEROSTAR 600 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
- 60-0185-082
- 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 · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 186 mph
- Transponder code
- A1B916 (octal 50334426)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 30, 2008
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 6, 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
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00221402
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cle Aviation 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
- 12978 Calais Circle
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N21VT links to the rest of the register
- Smith AEROSTAR 600 42 registered
- Smith 184 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming TIO-540 series 5,077 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Cle Aviation LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Palm Beach Gardens, FL 64 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,711 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TIO-540 series 41 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TIO-540 series 363 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N21VT.json.
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The public federal record on N21VT, 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 Cle Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 30, 2008, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 60-0185-082 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N21VT 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]
1 NTSB record under N21VT: Accident on June 16, 2004 at Warren, VT: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schleicher ASK-21 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper pre-flight and in-flight planning, which resulted in a forced landing after experiencing a loss of thermal lift. A factor was the loss of thermal lift.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data