{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2025-01-23","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-05-14","city":"POMPANO BEACH","country_code":"US","county_code":"011","cruise_speed_mph":105,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41595","engine_horsepower":160,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-320-D2J","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-04-02","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072434","mode_s_code":"51133212","mode_s_hex":"A4B68A","model":"172N","n_number":"N4021","name":"NIGHTHAWK N8231G LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4021 is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Nighthawk N8231G LLC, an LLC in Pompano Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 23, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Nighthawk N8231G LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 14, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 23, 2025, 46 years after the 1979 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17272149 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4021 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Sanchez CHEROKEE II (serial FS-100, cancelled May 24, 2012); Alexander Aircraft Co COMBINATION EAGLEROC (serial 412, cancelled August 23, 1929). 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":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N4021. 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"17272149","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2680 NE 24TH ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00950032","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4021","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"330647701"}