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Douglas DC-7B
N4887C is a Douglas DC-7B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 102 seats. It is registered to Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum DBA, a corporation in Atlanta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated August 27, 1986.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC-7B · all DC-7Bs 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-7 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
- 45351
- 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 · Wright 988TC18EA SER · 3400 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 102
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 232 mph
- Transponder code
- A609A1 (octal 51404641)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 20, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 27, 1986
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00830455
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum DBA
- 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
- 1060 Delta Blvd Bldg B Dept 914
Atlanta, GA 30354-1989 - Co-owners
- Delta Flight Museum
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N4887C links to the rest of the register
- Douglas DC-7 5 registered
- Douglas 305 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wright 988TC18EA series 1 aircraft with this engine series · 3400 hp
- Type certificate 4A10 · held by The Boeing Company
- Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum DBA 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Atlanta, GA 1,593 aircraft registered in this town
- Cobb County Intl/Mccollum Field · RYY
- Dekalb-Peachtree Airport · PDK
- Fulton County Exec/Charlie Brown Field · FTY
- Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International · ATL
- 5 more landing places in town
- Georgia 8,807 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Douglas DC-7 2 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Douglas DC-7 49 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Wright 988TC18EA series 1 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N4887C, 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 Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum DBA, a corporation, certificate issued December 20, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45351 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4887C 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4887C. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data