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N3971Y

Cessna 210D

Valid Alabama

N3971Y is a Cessna 210D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Limestone County Sheriff Dept, a government body in Athens, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2014 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 7, 1964.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
210D · all 210Ds and related versions
Serial number
21058471
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1964
Cruising speed
141 mph
Transponder code
A49F5C (octal 51117534)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 9, 2014
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 29, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · August 7, 1964
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00430744

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Limestone County Sheriff Dept
Type
Government
Address
PO Box 889
Athens, AL 35612-0889

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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 N3971Y, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Limestone County Sheriff Dept, a government body, certificate issued January 9, 2014, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated August 7, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21058471 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N3971Y according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3971Y. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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