Douglas DC3C
N47E is a Douglas DC3C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1943. It has 32 seats. It is registered to Dynamic Avlease INC, a corporation in Bridgewater, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2010 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 5, 1989.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC3C · all DC3Cs 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 DC-3 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
- 13816
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P & W R-1830 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Seats
- 32
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 144 mph
- Transponder code
- A5BF25 (octal 51337445)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 23, 2010
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 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 · May 5, 1989
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00254861
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dynamic Avlease 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
- PO Box 7
Bridgewater, VA 22812-0007
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 2
Connections how N47E links to the rest of the register
- Douglas DC-3 155 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-1830 series 116 aircraft with this engine series · 1350 hp
- Dynamic Avlease INC 83 aircraft in the fleet
- Bridgewater, VA 135 aircraft registered in this town
- Bridgewater Air Park Airport · VBW
- Virginia 5,971 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Douglas DC-3 36 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Douglas DC-3 198 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Douglas DC-3 304 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 series 12 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N47E, 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 Dynamic Avlease INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 23, 2010, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 5, 1989, 46 years after the 1943 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 13816 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N47E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech E18S (serial BA183, cancelled April 23, 1993); Curtiss Wright ROBIN (serial 81, cancelled August 23, 1929). 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]
1 NTSB record under N47E: Accident on February 24, 1993 at Lemont, PA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Beech E18S · operated under 135
IMPROPER INFLIGHT PLANNING DECISION BY THE PILOT, AND HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN PROPER ALTITUDE DURING THE APPROACH. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE DARKNESS, ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS, AND HIGH TERRAIN.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
