Douglas C54-D
N500EJ is a Douglas C54-D, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 60 seats. It is registered to Berlin Airlift Historial Foundation, a corporation in Farmingdale, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 12, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 20, 1983.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- C54-D · all C54-Ds 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 C-54 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
- 43-17228
- 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-2000 SERIES · 1450 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 60
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 173 mph
- Transponder code
- A63A5D (octal 51435135)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 12, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 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 · June 20, 1983
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00741631
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Berlin Airlift Historial Foundation
- 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 782
Farmingdale, NJ 07727-0782
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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 N500EJ links to the rest of the register
- Douglas C-54 7 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-2000 series 16 aircraft with this engine series · 1450 hp
- Berlin Airlift Historial Foundation 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Farmingdale, NJ 8 aircraft registered in this town
- New Jersey 3,020 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Douglas C-54 44 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Douglas C-54 105 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Douglas C-54 49 supplemental type certificates
- Where N500EJ is now · Last seen yesterday at 4:37 pm.
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The public federal record on N500EJ, 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 Berlin Airlift Historial Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued January 12, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 20, 1983, 40 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 43-17228 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N500EJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas C54E-DC (serial 27370, cancelled October 5, 2020). 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 N500EJ. 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 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 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 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data