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N514AC, a Douglas DC3C 1830-94
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026
N514AC

Douglas DC3C 1830-94

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas

N514AC is a Douglas DC3C 1830-94, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 32 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum INC, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 1, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 29, 1968.

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Aircraft

Maker
Douglas
Model
DC3C 1830-94 · all DC3C 1830-94s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
26558
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, 2 motors · P & W R-1830 SERIES · 1350 hp
Seats
32
Year built
1944
Cruising speed
150 mph
Transponder code
A6704E (octal 51470116)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
June 1, 2024
Expires
June 30, 2031
Last FAA action
June 1, 2024
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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 29, 1968
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00362322

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum 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 764769
Dallas, TX 75376-4769

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N514AC links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N514AC, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 1, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 29, 1968, 24 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26558 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N514AC according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N514AC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data