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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N53449

Cessna 337G

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNorth Carolina

N53449 is a Cessna 337G, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 21, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 19, 1975.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
337G · all 337Gs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 337 Skymaster 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
33701631
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 IO-360 SER · 300 hp
Seats
6
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
142 mph
Transponder code
A6C24F (octal 51541117)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
June 21, 2023
Expires
June 30, 2030
Last FAA action
June 21, 2023
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 · February 19, 1975
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00192815

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hyde Russell M
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
622 Airport Rd
Rutherfordton, NC 28139-8236

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

1963-08-16Fairchild M-62A · Valid registration

Connections how N53449 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N53449.json.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N53449, 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 Hyde Russell M, an individual, certificate issued June 21, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 33701631 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N53449 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A (serial T42-1763, cancelled August 16, 1963). 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 N53449: Accident on July 22, 1995 at Holland, MI: serious 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

CHI95LA231Accident on July 22, 1995 at Holland, MI: serious injuries.serial on NTSB record: 33701663

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 337H · operated under 091

the passenger's improper decision to exit the airplane with the engine(s) running.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data