Cessna 421C
N8430N is a Cessna 421C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cary, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 2013 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 7, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 421C · all 421Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 421C0490
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSI0-520-F-K · 435 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AB8D63 (octal 52706543)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 26, 2013
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- June 8, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 7, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00613041
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fitch John A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 418 Wentworth Cir
Cary, IL 60013-2321
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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N8430N, 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 Fitch John A, an individual, certificate issued March 26, 2013, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 7, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421C0490 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8430N 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 N8430N. 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 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