Douglas DC3C 1830-94
N51938 is a Douglas DC3C 1830-94, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 32 seats. It is registered to Round Engine Aero, a corporation in Nashville, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 19, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 16, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC3C 1830-94 · all DC3C 1830-94s and related versions
- Serial number
- 25956
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors
- Seats
- 32
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A685C0 (octal 51502700)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 19, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · February 16, 1983
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00682265
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Round Engine Aero
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 9850 Curtis Rd
Nashville, MI 49073-9406
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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N51938, 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 Round Engine Aero, a corporation, certificate issued December 19, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25956 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51938 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62C (serial T42-1684, cancelled October 13, 1955). 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 N51938. 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