Cessna 421
N285N is a Cessna 421, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Totem Air INC, a corporation in Seattle, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 1994 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 17, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 421 · all 421s and related versions
- Serial number
- 421-0169
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSIO-520-C · 340 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- A2E1BA (octal 50560672)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 14, 1994
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 17, 1968
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00940433
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Totem Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3100 W Commodore Wy 103
Seattle, WA 98199
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N285N, 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 Totem Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 14, 1994, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 17, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421-0169 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N285N 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N285N. 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 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