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N421RL

Cessna 421A

Valid Tennessee

N421RL is a Cessna 421A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 7 seats. It is registered to an individual in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 6, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 28, 1968.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
421A · all 421As and related versions
Serial number
421A0026
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSIO-520-C · 340 hp
Seats
7
Year built
1968
Cruising speed
172 mph
Transponder code
A500D8 (octal 51200330)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 6, 2025
Expires
October 31, 2032
Last FAA action
October 6, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · August 28, 1968
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00061822

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Smith Ronald
Type
Individual
Address
3975 Betty Ford Rd
Murfreesboro, TN 37130-6714

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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 N421RL, 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 Ronald, an individual, certificate issued October 6, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated August 28, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421A0026 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N421RL 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 N421RL. 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