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N5397J

Cessna 421B

N5397J is a Cessna 421B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Cp Aviation LLC, an LLC in Washington, District of Columbia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 25, 2010 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 12, 1975.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
421B · all 421Bs and related versions
Serial number
421B0947
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSI0-520-F-K · 435 hp
Seats
8
Year built
1975
Cruising speed
172 mph
Transponder code
A6D532 (octal 51552462)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 25, 2010
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · August 12, 1975
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00332995

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cp Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
3166 Tennyson St NW
Washington, DC 20015-2360

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N5397J, 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 Cp Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 25, 2010, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated August 12, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421B0947 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5397J according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5397J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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