Douglas DC3A
N139D is a Douglas DC3A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1939. It has 32 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Athens, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 1984 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 17, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC3A · all DC3As and related versions
- Serial number
- 2165
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P & W R-1830 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Seats
- 32
- Year built
- 1939
- Cruising speed
- 144 mph
- Transponder code
- A09CEB (octal 50116353)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 15, 1984
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 17, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00361580
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schaller Lee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1414 Baldwin Rd
New Athens, IL 62264-3002
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 N139D, 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 Schaller Lee, an individual, certificate issued August 15, 1984, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 17, 1956, 17 years after the 1939 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 2165 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N139D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC3A (serial 2027, cancelled October 26, 1970). 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 N139D. 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