Douglas DC3C-S1C3G
N16005 is a Douglas DC3C-S1C3G, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 32 seats. It is registered to N1944M LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2008 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated July 31, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC3C-S1C3G · all DC3C-S1C3Gs and related versions
- Serial number
- 19394
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P & W R-1830 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Seats
- 32
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A0F424 (octal 50172044)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 9, 2008
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- October 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · July 31, 1992
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00273752
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N1944M LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 108 W 13Th St
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145
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.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N16005, 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 N1944M LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 9, 2008, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 31, 1992, 50 years after the 1942 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 19394 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N16005 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 N16005: Accident on September 13, 2002 at Index, WA: serious 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: Mcdonnell Douglas 369E · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from terrain while hovering.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data