Cessna 421
N421DN 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 Del Mar College, a government body in Corpus Christi, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 26, 2009 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 16, 1968.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 421 · all 421s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 421 Golden Eagle 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
- 421-0146
- 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 IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- A4FFAE (octal 51177656)
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 26, 2009
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 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 · July 16, 1968
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00131643
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Del Mar College (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 101 Baldwin Blvd
Corpus Christi, TX 78404-3805
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N421DN links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 421 Golden Eagle 768 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-520 series 9,485 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Del Mar College 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Corpus Christi, TX 240 aircraft registered in this town
- Corpus Christi International · CRP
- Texas 29,945 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 421 Golden Eagle 43 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 421 Golden Eagle 725 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 421 Golden Eagle 234 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N421DN.json.
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The public federal record on N421DN, 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 Del Mar College, a government body, certificate issued October 26, 2009, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 16, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421-0146 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N421DN 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 N421DN. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data