Cessna 421B
N977SM is a Cessna 421B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Kmc Aviation Leasing LLC, an LLC in Indianapolis, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2012 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 28, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 421B · all 421Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 421B0595
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor GTSIO-520-C · 340 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 172 mph
- Transponder code
- AD9F42 (octal 53317502)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 2012
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 28, 1974
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00481734
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kmc Aviation Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4525 E 82Nd St
Indianapolis, IN 46250-1670
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.
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The public federal record on N977SM, 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 Kmc Aviation Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 23, 2012, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 28, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421B0595 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N977SM 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]
1 NTSB record under N977SM: Accident on November 11, 2023 at Lake City, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 421 · operated under 091
A landing gear collapse following an aborted takeoff due to degraded climb performance for reasons that could not be determined.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data