Douglas DC-3A-S1C3G
N24320 is a Douglas DC-3A-S1C3G, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 32 seats. It is registered to Museum Of Mountain Flying, a corporation in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 15, 2002 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; forest, dated August 4, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC-3A-S1C3G · all DC-3A-S1C3Gs and related versions
- Serial number
- 20197
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P & W R-1830 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Seats
- 32
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 157 mph
- Transponder code
- A23DDB (octal 50436733)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 15, 2002
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control; Forest · August 4, 1975
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00892612
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Museum Of Mountain Flying
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 16601
Missoula, MT 59808-6601
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 N24320, 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 Museum Of Mountain Flying, a corporation, certificate issued January 15, 2002, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 4, 1975, 31 years after the 1944 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 20197 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N24320 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 N24320: Accident on December 15, 1994 at Memphis, TN: 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 DC-3A · operated under 135
THE INABILITY OF THE PILOT OF CESSNA 208, N927FE TO SEE DOUGLAS DC3, N24320, AS HE TAXIED TO TAKEOFF DUE TO INOPERATIVE TAIL NAVIGATION LIGHTS AND BEACON LIGHTS ON THE DC3 AND DUE TO GLARE ON THE WET TAXIWAY.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA95LA040 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data