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N748CA

Cessna 421C

N748CA is a Cessna 421C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Desert Air Ambulance INC, a corporation in Menifee, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 2, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 18, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
421C · all 421Cs and related versions
Serial number
421C0905
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSIO-520-C · 340 hp
Seats
8
Year built
1980
Cruising speed
90 mph
Transponder code
AA1075 (octal 52410165)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 2, 2025
Expires
May 31, 2032
Last FAA action
May 2, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 18, 1980
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00391696

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Desert Air Ambulance INC
Type
Corporation
Address
27854 Keller Rd
Menifee, CA 92584-9645

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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 N748CA, 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 Desert Air Ambulance INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 2, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 18, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421C0905 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N748CA 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 N748CA. 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