{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2016-05-27","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-03-03","city":"GREENSBORO","country_code":"US","county_code":"081","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"30200","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"GE HONDA","engine_model":"HF-120","engine_thrust_lb":2050,"expiration_date":"2033-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"business-jets","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-06-11","maker":"Honda Aircraft Co Llc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HONDA AIRCRAFT CO LLC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4400000","mode_s_code":"51176004","mode_s_hex":"A4FC04","model":"HA-420","n_number":"N420EA","name":"HONDA AVIATION SERVICE CO INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"HONOLULU","damage":"MINR","date":"1996-08-08","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX96IA300","probable_cause":"Improper installation of a flexible hydraulic hose by company maintenance personnel and inadequate inspection of the work by company inspectors which resulted in the loose hose becoming entangled in the nose gear linkage, preventing complete extension of the nose gear.","registration":"N420EA","state":"HI","summary":"Incident on August 8, 1996 at Honolulu, HI: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N420EA is a Honda Aircraft Co Llc HA-420, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2016. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Honda Aviation Service CO INC, a non-citizen corporation in Greensboro, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 27, 2016.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Honda Aviation Service CO INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued March 3, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated May 27, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42000016 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N420EA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-51 (serial 47689, cancelled May 16, 2006). 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":"1 NTSB record under N420EA: Incident on August 8, 1996 at Honolulu, HI: no injuries, minor damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Non-citizen corporation","registrant_type_code":"8","seats":8,"serial_number":"42000016","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"ATTN: FLIGHT OPS DEPT/M CARROLL","street2":"6430 BALLINGER RD","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"01170545","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N420EA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2016,"zip":"274109063"}