{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1973-01-13","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-09-25","city":"BEAVER ISLAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","cruise_speed_mph":120,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-10"},{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Loan or lien (security agreement)","doc_type_code":"S/A","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-10"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17026","engine_horsepower":230,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"O-470 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-09-25","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2075816","mode_s_code":"50345426","mode_s_hex":"A1CB16","model":"182P","n_number":"N21421","name":"PAUL JANET K","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N21421 is a Cessna 182P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Beaver Island, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 13, 1973. 2 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan or lien (security agreement).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Paul Janet K, an individual, certificate issued September 25, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated January 13, 1973, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18261630 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N21421 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J-3 (serial 2258, cancelled January 20, 1940). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 10, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N21421. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"18261630","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"35275 BONNERS LANDING RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00601462","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N21421","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1972,"zip":"497829710"}