Cessna 421C
N4VH is a Cessna 421C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Uvalde, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 1, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 8, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 421C · all 421Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 421C0435
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSI0-520-F-K · 435 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A4A9D2 (octal 51124722)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 1, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 1, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 8, 1977
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00733305
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Foster Chad H JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 106 N East St
Uvalde, TX 78801-5312
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4VH, 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 Foster Chad H JR, an individual, certificate issued March 1, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 8, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421C0435 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4VH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Butler Aircraft Company AEROSTAR 600 (serial 600055125, cancelled January 24, 1992). 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 N4VH: Accident on September 11, 1991 at Ruidoso, NM: fatal, destroyed (2 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: Butler AEROSTAR 600 · operated under 091
LOSS OF CONTROL IN FLIGHT AFTER TO THE CABIN DOOR OPENED INADVERTENTLY DURING TAKEOFF RUN.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN91FA127 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