Cessna 421C
N421GS is a Cessna 421C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Starlight Aviation LLC, an LLC in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2007 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 31, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 421C · all 421Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 421C1409
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSIO-520 SER · 435 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1984
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A4FFFD (octal 51177775)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2007
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 31, 1984
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00911544
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Starlight Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 16600 Park Row
Houston, TX 77084-5019
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N421GS, 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 Starlight Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 31, 2007, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 31, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421C1409 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N421GS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 287816245, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N421GS: Accident on September 4, 1985 at Julian, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-161 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX85LA380 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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