Travel Air 16-K
N421W is a Travel Air 16-K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1931. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Williamsburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 31, 1947.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Travel Air
- Model
- 16-K · all 16-Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 16-2003
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1931
- Cruising speed
- 98 mph
- Transponder code
- A5014A (octal 51200512)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2006
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- February 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 31, 1947
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00014519
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Petro Jerry R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1105 Lafayette St
Williamsburg, VA 23185-2905
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N421W, 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 Petro Jerry R, an individual, certificate issued January 11, 2006, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 31, 1947, 16 years after the 1931 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 16-2003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N421W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 421C (serial 421C0868, cancelled February 13, 2018); Cessna 421C (serial 421C1232, cancelled November 10, 1993). 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 N421W: Accident on May 16, 2013 at Floriston, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Cessna 421C · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain airplane control during descent while operating in instrument meteorological conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR13FA234 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