Grumman G-21A
N74588 is a Grumman G-21A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Southern Cross Aviation LLC, an LLC in Roanoke, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 15, 1962.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- G-21A · all G-21As 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 Grumman G-21 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
- 1165
- 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 · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- AA08AE (octal 52404256)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 28, 2022
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 21, 2024
- 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 · October 15, 1962
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00562537
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Cross 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
- 14444 Valetta Ranch Rd
Roanoke, TX 76262-6526
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N74588 links to the rest of the register
- Grumman G-21 35 registered
- Grumman 443 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 1,593 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Southern Cross Aviation LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Roanoke, TX 75 aircraft registered in this town
- Aero Valley Airport · 52F
- Texas 29,986 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Grumman G-21 10 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Grumman G-21 40 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 80 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N74588, 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 Southern Cross Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 28, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated October 15, 1962, consistent with the 1962 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1165 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N74588 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 N74588. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data