Curtiss Wright C-46D
N54514 is a Curtiss Wright C-46D, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 65 seats. It is registered to Tatonduk Outfitters LTD, a corporation in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 1996 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 13, 1998. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- C-46D · all C-46Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 33285
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
- Seats
- 65
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 180 mph
- Transponder code
- A6ED17 (octal 51566427)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 1996
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 13, 1998
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00133185
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tatonduk Outfitters LTD
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 61680
Fairbanks, AK 99706-1680
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N54514, 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 Tatonduk Outfitters LTD, a corporation, certificate issued December 9, 1996, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 13, 1998, 54 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 33285 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N54514 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild PT-19A (serial 6503AE, cancelled November 30, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 14, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N54514: Accident on October 29, 2002 at Fairbanks, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Curtiss-Wright CW-46 · operated under 091
The failure of the right main landing gear locking device to engage, which allowed the right main landing gear to collapse during taxi from landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC03LA012 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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