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N421E

Cessna 421B

Valid Florida

N421E is a Cessna 421B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pensacola, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 1, 1974.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
421B · all 421Bs and related versions
Serial number
421B0599
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSIO-520-C · 340 hp
Seats
8
Year built
1974
Cruising speed
172 mph
Transponder code
A4FFBA (octal 51177672)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 13, 2021
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 1, 1974
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00062413

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Smith Russell N
Type
Individual
Address
405 Bremen Ave
Pensacola, FL 32507-2909

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 2

1934-10-12Boeing 95 · exported to Mexico · Valid registration
—Cessna 421C · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N421E, 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 Smith Russell N, an individual, certificate issued April 13, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated May 1, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421B0599 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N421E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Boeing 95 (serial 1065, cancelled October 12, 1934); Cessna 421C (serial 421C0162, cancelled date not given). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N421E. 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