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N420EA

Honda Aircraft Co Llc HA-420

N420EA is a Honda Aircraft Co Llc HA-420, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2016. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Honda Aviation Service CO INC, a non-citizen corporation in Greensboro, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 27, 2016.

Aircraft

Maker
Honda Aircraft Co Llc
Model
HA-420 · all HA-420s and related versions
Serial number
42000016
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Ge Honda HF-120 · 2,050 lb thrust
Seats
8
Year built
2016
Transponder code
A4FC04 (octal 51176004)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 3, 2026
Expires
March 31, 2033
Last FAA action
June 11, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 27, 2016
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01170545

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Honda Aviation Service CO INC
Type
Non-citizen corporation
Address
Attn: Flight Ops Dept/M Carroll
6430 Ballinger Rd
Greensboro, NC 27410-9063

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

2006-05-16Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-51 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N420EA, 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 Honda Aviation Service CO INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued March 3, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated May 27, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42000016 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N420EA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-51 (serial 47689, cancelled May 16, 2006). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N420EA: Incident on August 8, 1996 at Honolulu, HI: no injuries, minor 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

LAX96IA300Incident on August 8, 1996 at Honolulu, HI: no injuries, minor damage.serial on NTSB record: 47689

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Douglas DC-9-51 · operated under 121

Improper installation of a flexible hydraulic hose by company maintenance personnel and inadequate inspection of the work by company inspectors which resulted in the loose hose becoming entangled in the nose gear linkage, preventing complete extension of the nose gear.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX96IA300 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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