Douglas DC3C
N115U is a Douglas DC3C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1944. It has 32 seats. It is registered to Basler Turbo Conversions LLC, an LLC in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 18, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Desert Air Transport, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 4:57 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC3C · all DC3Cs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Douglas DC-3 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 33567
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P & W R-1830 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Seats
- 32
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 144 mph
- Transponder code
- A04088 (octal 50040210)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 18, 2020
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00441750
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Basler Turbo Conversions LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 255 W 35Th Ave
Oshkosh, WI 54902-7174
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
Connections how N115U links to the rest of the register
- Douglas DC-3 155 registered
- Douglas 305 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Desert Air Transport, Inc. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney R-1830 series 116 aircraft with this engine series · 1350 hp
- Basler Turbo Conversions LLC 21 aircraft in the fleet
- Oshkosh, WI 272 aircraft registered in this town
- Wittman Regional · OSH
- Wisconsin 6,166 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Douglas DC-3 36 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Douglas DC-3 198 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Douglas DC-3 304 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 series 12 reports since 1995
- Where N115U is now · Last seen Thursday at 4:57 pm.
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The public federal record on N115U, 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 Basler Turbo Conversions LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 18, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 33567 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N115U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 310 (serial 35420, cancelled May 8, 1974). 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]
1 NTSB record under N115U: Accident on May 8, 2026 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Douglas DC3C · operated under 135
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data