Cessna 421C
N245T is a Cessna 421C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 8 seats. It is registered to High Country Aero LTD, an LLC in Berthoud, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 29, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 421C · all 421Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 421C1104
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSI0-520-F-K · 435 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A2443B (octal 50442073)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 29, 1996
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00130147
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- High Country Aero LTD
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 951 Cougar Run Ln
Berthoud, CO 80513-9387
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N245T, 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 High Country Aero LTD, an LLC, certificate issued April 7, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421C1104 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N245T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18 105 (serial 18-2359, cancelled September 8, 1972). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N245T: Accident on June 17, 2024 at Steamboat Springs, CO: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Cessna 421 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain sufficient airspeed following a loss of engine power, which resulted in an inadvertent aerodynamic stall/spin at low altitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24FA228 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data