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Douglas DC3A-S4C4G
N143D is a Douglas DC3A-S4C4G, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1937. It has 32 seats. It is registered to an individual in Harlingen, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 20, 1963.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC3A-S4C4G · all DC3A-S4C4Gs 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
- 2054
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P & W R-1830 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 32
- Year built
- 1937
- Cruising speed
- 158 mph
- Transponder code
- A0AE20 (octal 50127040)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 24, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 24, 2024
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 20, 1963
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00951650
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reiley Hunter W
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 14729 Hughes Rd
Harlingen, TX 78552-6629
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N143D 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
- Pratt & Whitney R-1830 series 116 aircraft with this engine series · 1350 hp
- Harlingen, TX 49 aircraft registered in this town
- Valley International · HRL
- Texas 29,946 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
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The public federal record on N143D, 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 Reiley Hunter W, an individual, certificate issued September 24, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 20, 1963, 26 years after the 1937 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 2054 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N143D according to the deregistered file. [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 N143D: Accident on September 18, 1984 at Boca Raton, FL: 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 DC3 · operated under 135
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data