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N151

Douglas DC-6B

Valid Alaska

N151 is a Douglas DC-6B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 96 seats. It is registered to Tatonduk Outfitters LTD, a corporation in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2013 and expires on February 28, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Douglas
Model
DC-6B · all DC-6Bs and related versions
Serial number
45179
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 4 motors
Seats
96
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
216 mph
Transponder code
A0CDE5 (octal 50146745)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 14, 2013
Expires
February 28, 2029
Last FAA action
July 15, 2025
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00713615

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Tatonduk Outfitters LTD
Type
Corporation
Address
5525 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709-4470

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 2

2020-06-09Douglas DC-6B · exported to Norway · Valid registration
1996-08-30Douglas DC-6B · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N151, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Tatonduk Outfitters LTD, a corporation, certificate issued February 14, 2013, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45179 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N151 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Douglas DC-6B (serial 45496, cancelled June 9, 2020); Douglas DC-6B (serial 45174, cancelled August 30, 1996). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N151: Accident on March 3, 1992 at Selawik, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ANC92LA043Accident on March 3, 1992 at Selawik, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 45174

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Douglas DC-6B · operated under 125

THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE PRE FLIGHT PLANNING AND DISREGARDING THE AIRCRAFT PERFORMANCE DATA. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS WERE THE EXTREME OUTSIDE AIR TEMPERATURES, THE ICY RUNWAY, AND THE TAILWIND.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC92LA043 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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