Douglas SUPER R4D-8
N321L is a Douglas SUPER R4D-8, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1951. It has 32 seats. It is registered to Nord Aviation INC, a corporation in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 4, 2003 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated July 23, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- SUPER R4D-8
- Serial number
- 43345
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Wright R-1820 SER · 1475 hp
- Seats
- 32
- Year built
- 1951
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A37301 (octal 50671401)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 4, 2003
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · July 23, 1997
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00531145
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nord Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 8000-4 Airport Rd
Santa Teresa, NM 88008-9714
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N321L, 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 Nord Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 4, 2003, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 23, 1997, 46 years after the 1951 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 43345 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N321L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 95-A55 (serial TC-193, cancelled June 5, 1970). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N321L. 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