{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1947-10-31","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2006-01-11","city":"WILLIAMSBURG","country_code":"US","county_code":"830","cruise_speed_mph":98,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2029-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-02-02","maker":"Travel Air","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"TRAVEL AIR","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2621508","mode_s_code":"51200512","mode_s_hex":"A5014A","model":"16-K","n_number":"N421W","name":"PETRO JERRY R","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Floriston","damage":"DEST","date":"2013-05-16","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"WPR13FA234","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain airplane control during descent while operating in instrument meteorological conditions.","registration":"N421W","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on May 16, 2013 at Floriston, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N421W is a Travel Air 16-K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1931. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Williamsburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 31, 1947.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Petro Jerry R, an individual, certificate issued January 11, 2006, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 31, 1947, 16 years after the 1931 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 16-2003 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N421W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 421C (serial 421C0868, cancelled February 13, 2018); Cessna 421C (serial 421C1232, cancelled November 10, 1993). 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 N421W: Accident on May 16, 2013 at Floriston, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":3,"serial_number":"16-2003","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"VA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1105 LAFAYETTE ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00014519","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N421W","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1931,"zip":"231852905"}