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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- C54-D · all C54-Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 43-17228
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 4 motors · P & W R-2000 SERIES · 1450 hp
- Seats
- 60
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 173 mph
- Transponder code
- A63A5D (octal 51435135)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 12, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · June 20, 1983
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00741631
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Berlin Airlift Historial Foundation
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 782
Farmingdale, NJ 07727-0782
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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 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