Cessna 421C
N47JD 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 Qualitair LLC Trustee, an LLC in Michelstadt. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 13, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 23, 2026. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 421C · all 421Cs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 421 Golden Eagle family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 421C0805
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSIO-520-L · 375 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A5BF8D (octal 51337615)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 13, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 23, 2026
- FAA region
- EuropeanFAA region code 8 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01022554
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Qualitair LLC Trustee
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- Flugplatz Michelstadt
Mossauer Strasse 17
Michelstadt, 64720
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N47JD links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 421 Golden Eagle 769 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental GTSIO-520-L 16 aircraft with this engine series · 375 hp
- Qualitair LLC Trustee 253 aircraft in the fleet
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 421 Golden Eagle 43 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 421 Golden Eagle 725 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 421 Golden Eagle 234 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental GTSIO-520-L 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental GTSIO-520-L 139 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N47JD, 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 Qualitair LLC Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued October 13, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 23, 2026, 46 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 421C0805 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N47JD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Schempp-Hirth VENTUS A (serial 29, cancelled October 15, 2012). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 13, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N47JD: Accident on July 23, 2008 at Midlothian, TX: 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: Schempp-Hirth Ventus A · operated under 091
The pilot's inability to maintain aircraft control due to an incapacitating cardiac event. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's poor decision to fly with known serious medical issues.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data