Douglas DC3
N1072M is a Douglas DC3, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1943. It has 32 seats. It is registered to Big Flats LLC, an LLC in Durham, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 3, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC3 · all DC3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 9832
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P & W R-1830 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Seats
- 32
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 174 mph
- Transponder code
- A0215F (octal 50020537)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 10, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · May 3, 1995
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00165591
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Big Flats LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 6409 Fayetteville Rd Ste 120-341
Durham, NC 27713
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1072M, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Big Flats LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 10, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 3, 1995, 52 years after the 1943 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. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9832 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1072M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T210J (serial T210-0452, cancelled March 23, 2018). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1072M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data