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N421MW

Cessna 421

Valid Texas

N421MW 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 an individual in Bridgeport, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 22, 1993 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 19, 1968.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
421 · all 421s and related versions
Serial number
421-0058
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSIO-520-C · 340 hp
Seats
8
Year built
1968
Cruising speed
172 mph
Transponder code
A5007E (octal 51200176)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 22, 1993
Expires
December 31, 2028
Last FAA action
July 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · February 19, 1968
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00011694

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rice Melvin Gaylon
Type
Individual
Address
307 State Highway 114
Bridgeport, TX 76426

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N421MW, 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 Rice Melvin Gaylon, an individual, certificate issued November 22, 1993, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated February 19, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421-0058 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N421MW 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N421MW. 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