{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-08-01","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2018-03-19","city":"MITCHELL","country_code":"US","county_code":"035","cruise_speed_mph":90,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17039","engine_horsepower":435,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"GTSIO-520 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-28","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2076016","mode_s_code":"51254631","mode_s_hex":"A55999","model":"421C","n_number":"N444BG","name":"MITCHELL AVIATION LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"GOODYEAR","damage":"DEST","date":"1996-06-15","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX96LA233","probable_cause":"an engine compartment fire, which originated in flight from loose fuel and/or oil lines near the engine's firewall.","registration":"N444BG","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on June 15, 1996 at Goodyear, AZ: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N444BG is a Cessna 421C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Mitchell Aviation LLC, an LLC in Mitchell, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2018 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 1, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mitchell Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 19, 2018, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 1, 2001, 21 years after the 1980 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 421C0893 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N444BG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Van Horn Robert E VELOCITY (serial DM053, cancelled April 9, 1997). 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 N444BG: Accident on June 15, 1996 at Goodyear, AZ: 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":8,"serial_number":"421C0893","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"SD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1415 N SANBORN BLVD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00111953","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N444BG","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1980,"zip":"573011015"}