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N421TE

Cessna 421C

Valid Montana

N421TE is a Cessna 421C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Torgerson'S LLC, an LLC in Ethridge, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 8, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 30, 2008.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
421C · all 421Cs and related versions
Serial number
421C1201
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSIO-520-N · 375 hp
Seats
8
Year built
1981
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
A50104 (octal 51200404)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 8, 2021
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
September 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 30, 2008
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00233362

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Torgerson'S LLC
Type
LLC
Address
PO Box 278
Ethridge, MT 59435-0278

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

2005-01-21Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR 42-300 · exported to Indonesia · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N421TE, 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 Torgerson'S LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 8, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 30, 2008, 27 years after the 1981 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421C1201 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N421TE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR 42-300 (serial 102, cancelled January 21, 2005). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N421TE: Incident on July 23, 2000 at Champaign, IL: no injuries. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CHI00IA221Incident on July 23, 2000 at Champaign, IL: no injuries.serial on NTSB record: 102

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerospatiale ATR 42-300 · operated under 121

The failure of the aileron trim switch due to foreign material contamination.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI00IA221 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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