Cessna 421C
N262MC 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 Aerospace Trust Management LLC Trustee, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 4, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 421C · all 421Cs 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
- 421C0140
- 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 GTSIO-520-L · 375 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A28781 (octal 50503601)
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, 2022
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- 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 · October 4, 2008
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00700634
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aerospace Trust Management LLC Trustee
- 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
- 1013 Centre Rd Ste 403A
Wilmington, DE 19805-1270
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 2
Connections how N262MC links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 421 Golden Eagle 769 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 GTSIO-520-L 16 aircraft with this engine series · 375 hp
- Aerospace Trust Management LLC Trustee 138 aircraft in the fleet
- Wilmington, DE 7,373 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,952 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 GTSIO-520-L 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental GTSIO-520-L 139 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N262MC.json.
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The public federal record on N262MC, 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 Aerospace Trust Management LLC Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued July 19, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. 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 421C0140 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N262MC was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17269549, cancelled September 7, 2005); Dornier DO-228-201 (serial 8127, cancelled May 19, 1995). 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 N262MC: Accident on July 17, 2004 at Erwinna, PA: serious 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: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain airspeed and his failure to follow the go-around procedure which resulted in a stall.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data