Cessna 421C
N284DM is a Cessna 421C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Dreamworks Aviation LLC, an LLC in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 6, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 12, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 421C · all 421Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 421C1406
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSIO-520 SER · 435 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1984
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A2DD2E (octal 50556456)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 6, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 12, 2001
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00501194
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dreamworks Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 14197 Harbor Ln
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410-1157
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N284DM, 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 Dreamworks Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 6, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 12, 2001, 17 years after the 1984 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 421C1406 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N284DM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Davenport David M RV-8F (serial 80955, cancelled April 25, 2013). 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 N284DM: Accident on April 1, 2004 at College Place, WA: fatal, substantial damage (1 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: Davenport (Van'S) RV-8F · operated under 091
A loss of engine power for undetermined reason(s) and the pilot's failure to maintain adequate flying airspeed during the forced landing. A contributing factor was the pilot's decision to attempt a turn at low altitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA04LA062 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