{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1977-12-08","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-03-01","city":"UVALDE","country_code":"US","county_code":"463","cruise_speed_mph":90,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17031","engine_horsepower":435,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"GTSI0-520-F-K","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-03-01","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2076016","mode_s_code":"51124722","mode_s_hex":"A4A9D2","model":"421C","n_number":"N4VH","name":"FOSTER CHAD H JR","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"RUIDOSO","damage":"DEST","date":"1991-09-11","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"DEN91FA127","probable_cause":"LOSS OF CONTROL IN FLIGHT AFTER TO THE CABIN DOOR OPENED INADVERTENTLY DURING TAKEOFF RUN.","registration":"N4VH","state":"NM","summary":"Accident on September 11, 1991 at Ruidoso, NM: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4VH is a Cessna 421C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Uvalde, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 1, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 8, 1977.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Foster Chad H JR, an individual, certificate issued March 1, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated December 8, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 421C0435 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4VH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Butler Aircraft Company AEROSTAR 600 (serial 600055125, cancelled January 24, 1992). 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 N4VH: Accident on September 11, 1991 at Ruidoso, NM: fatal, destroyed (2 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":8,"serial_number":"421C0435","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"106 N EAST ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00733305","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4VH","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1977,"zip":"788015312"}