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N70DC

Cessna 421

Sale reported California

N70DC is a Cessna 421, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Arcadia, California. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 5, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
421 · all 421s and related versions
Serial number
421-0103
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSIO-520-C · 340 hp
Seats
8
Year built
1968
Cruising speed
172 mph
Transponder code
A95283 (octal 52251203)

Registration

Status
Sale reported
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
August 12, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · March 5, 1979
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00050587

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sale Reported
Type
Individual
Address
1600 S Baldwin Ave Apt 20
Arcadia, CA 91007-7965

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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N70DC, 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.

ATTENTIONRegistration and identity

Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 5, 1979, 11 years after the 1968 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421-0103 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N70DC 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 N70DC. 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