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Douglas A-26B
N34538 is a Douglas A-26B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Martin Aviation INC, a corporation in Santa Ana, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 12, 1999 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated September 9, 1987.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- A-26B · all A-26Bs 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 A-26 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
- 27817
- 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-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 213 mph
- Transponder code
- A3D2C3 (octal 50751303)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 12, 1999
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- LimitedFAA airworthiness class code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · September 9, 1987
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00960037
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Martin Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 19300 Ike Jones Rd
Santa Ana, CA 92707-5229
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 1
Connections how N34538 links to the rest of the register
- Douglas A-26 22 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-2800 series 173 aircraft with this engine series · 2000 hp
- Martin Aviation INC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Santa Ana, CA 87 aircraft registered in this town
- John Wayne/Orange County · SNA
- California 27,655 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Douglas A-26 10 reports since 1995
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 series 446 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N34538.json.
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The public federal record on N34538, 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 Martin Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 12, 1999, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Limited certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27817 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N34538 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas C54B-DC (serial 10517, cancelled September 14, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N34538. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data