Douglas DC3C
N47TB is a Douglas DC3C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1944. It has 32 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 4, 2015 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 12, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC3C · all DC3Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 12693
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P & W R-1830 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Seats
- 32
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 144 mph
- Transponder code
- A5C06C (octal 51340154)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 4, 2015
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 12, 1956
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00351761
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 764769
Dallas, TX 75376-4769
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 N47TB, 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 American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, a corporation, certificate issued September 4, 2015, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 12, 1956, 12 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 12693 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N47TB 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 N47TB: Accident on March 21, 2002 at Albuquerque, NM: serious 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: Republic P-47N-20-RE · operated under 091
the pilot/mechanic's failure to properly re-install the engine's #10 cylinder exhaust interconnect tube, which resulted in an in-flight fire and forced landing. Contributing factors were the burned fuel and oil supply lines, which were not fire shielded.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW02LA098 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
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