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N400UA, a Douglas DC-6A
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N400UA

Douglas DC-6A

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlaska

N400UA is a Douglas DC-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 96 seats. It is registered to Tatonduk Outfitters LTD, a corporation in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2011 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 4, 1985.

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Aircraft

Maker
Douglas
Model
DC-6A · all DC-6As and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Douglas DC-6 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
44258
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, 4 motors · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
96
Year built
1954
Cruising speed
216 mph
Transponder code
A4AE64 (octal 51127144)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
March 29, 2011
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 4, 1985
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00910954

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Tatonduk Outfitters LTD
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
PO Box 61680
Fairbanks, AK 99706-1680

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N400UA links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N400UA, 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 March 29, 2011, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 4, 1985, 31 years after the 1954 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 44258 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N400UA according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N400UA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data