Douglas DC3
N242SM is a Douglas DC3, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1942. It has 32 seats. It is registered to City Of Santa Monica, a government body in Santa Monica, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 19, 2005 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 25, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC3 · all DC3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4877
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P & W R-1830 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Seats
- 32
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 174 mph
- Transponder code
- A23909 (octal 50434411)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 19, 2005
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · January 25, 1956
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00412255
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- City Of Santa Monica
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 3223 Donald Douglas Loop S Ste 3
Santa Monica, CA 90405-3213 - Co-owners
- Santa Monica Municipal Airport
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.
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The public federal record on N242SM, 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 City Of Santa Monica, a government body, certificate issued January 19, 2005, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 25, 1956, 14 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 4877 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N242SM 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N242SM. 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