Cessna 421A
N790X is a Cessna 421A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Precision Design INC, a corporation in Weatherford, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 4, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 20, 1969.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 421A · all 421As 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
- 421A0087
- 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 GTSIO-520-C · 340 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- AABA12 (octal 52535022)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 4, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 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 · May 20, 1969
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00285090
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Precision Design INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 2064
Weatherford, OK 73096-8064
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N790X links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 421 Golden Eagle 768 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-C 386 aircraft with this engine series · 340 hp
- Precision Design INC 14 aircraft in the fleet
- Weatherford, OK 23 aircraft registered in this town
- Weatherford Stafford Airport · OJA
- Oklahoma 5,643 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
- FAA orders naming the Continental GTSIO-520-C 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental GTSIO-520-C 44 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N790X.json.
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The public federal record on N790X, 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 Precision Design INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 4, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421A0087 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N790X 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 N790X. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data