Cessna 421B
N701AM is a Cessna 421B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Quest Aviation INC, a corporation in Lake City, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 28, 1995 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 31, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 421B · all 421Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 421B0366
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSI0-520-F-K · 435 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- A95851 (octal 52254121)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 28, 1995
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 31, 1985
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00392125
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Quest Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 173 SE Newell Dr
Lake City, FL 32025-1986
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.
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The public federal record on N701AM, 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 Quest Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 28, 1995, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 31, 1985, 12 years after the 1973 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 421B0366 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N701AM 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]
1 NTSB record under N701AM: Accident on October 3, 1994 at Stuart, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Cessna 421B · operated under 091
THE IMPROPER RIGGING OF THE LANDING GEAR SAFETY SQUAT SWITCH BY OTHER MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE CONTAMINATION OF THE GEAR SQUAT SWITCH WITH CORROSION AND WATER.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA95LA002 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