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A Aero Commander 685, the same model family as N414C
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N414C

Aero Commander 685

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNew Jersey

N414C is an Aero Commander 685, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 9 seats. It is registered to United Trading Unlimited LLC, an LLC in Princeton, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 13, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 12, 1973.

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Aircraft

Maker
Aero Commander
Model
685 · all 685s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Aero Commander 685 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
12021
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 GTSI0-520-F-K · 435 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
9
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
101 mph
Transponder code
A4E32E (octal 51161456)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 13, 2021
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 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 · February 12, 1973
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00562830

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United Trading Unlimited LLC
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
41 Airpark Rd
Princeton, NJ 08540-1500

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N414C links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Princeton, NJ 58 aircraft registered in this town
  • New Jersey 3,019 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N414C.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N414C, 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 United Trading Unlimited LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 13, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12021 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N414C 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N414C: Accident on July 29, 1998 at Middleton, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CHI98LA283Accident on July 29, 1998 at Middleton, WI: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aero Commander 685 · operated under 091

The fuel starvation of the aircraft in addition to the improper aircraft preflight and premature gear extension by the pilot-in-command. The blocked fuel vent system is a contributing factor.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data