Cessna 421C
N444BG is a Cessna 421C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Mitchell Aviation LLC, an LLC in Mitchell, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2018 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 1, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 421C · all 421Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 421C0893
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSIO-520 SER · 435 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A55999 (octal 51254631)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 19, 2018
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 1, 2001
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00111953
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mitchell Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1415 N Sanborn Blvd
Mitchell, SD 57301-1015
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N444BG, 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 Mitchell Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 19, 2018, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 1, 2001, 21 years after the 1980 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 421C0893 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N444BG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Van Horn Robert E VELOCITY (serial DM053, cancelled April 9, 1997). 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 N444BG: Accident on June 15, 1996 at Goodyear, AZ: 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: Van Horn VELOCITY · operated under 091
an engine compartment fire, which originated in flight from loose fuel and/or oil lines near the engine's firewall.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX96LA233 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