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.
Where is it now Last seen October 13 at 2:03 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 421B · all 421Bs 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
- 421B0947
- 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 GTSI0-520-F-K · 435 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- A6D532 (octal 51552462)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 25, 2010
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 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 · August 12, 1975
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00332995
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cp Aviation LLC
- 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
- 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.
Connections how N5397J 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-F-K 169 aircraft with this engine series · 435 hp
- Cp Aviation LLC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Washington, DC 393 aircraft registered in this town
- Ronald Reagan Washington Ntl Airport · DCA
- Washington Dulles International · IAD
- Washington Manassas/Harry P Davis Field · HEF
- South Capitol Street Heliport · 09W
- District of Columbia 398 aircraft registered
- 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
- Where N5397J is now · Last seen October 13 at 2:03 pm.
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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.
Valid registration to Cp Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 25, 2010, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 12, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421B0947 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5397J according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5397J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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