Douglas DC3
N54602 is a Douglas DC3, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 32 seats. It is registered to Military Aircraft Restoration CORP, a corporation in Anaheim, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 4, 1984 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a special flight permit airworthiness certificate for ferry flight for repairs, alterations, maintenance or storage, dated February 12, 1980.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC3 · all DC3s 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 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
- 43-49819
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors
- Seats
- 32
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 174 mph
- Transponder code
- A6F0A9 (octal 51570251)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 4, 1984
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Special flight permitFAA airworthiness class code 8 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Ferry flight for repairs, alterations, maintenance or storageFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 12, 1980
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00603235
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Military Aircraft Restoration CORP
- 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
- 8191 e Kaiser Blvd
Anaheim, CA 92808-2214
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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 N54602 links to the rest of the register
- Douglas DC-3 155 registered
- Douglas 305 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate NONE · held by None
- Military Aircraft Restoration CORP 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Anaheim, CA 65 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Douglas DC-3 36 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Douglas DC-3 198 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Douglas DC-3 304 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N54602, 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 Military Aircraft Restoration CORP, a corporation, certificate issued April 4, 1984, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Special flight permit certificate for ferry flight for repairs, alterations, maintenance or storage; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 43-49819 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N54602 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing A75N1 (serial 75-1110, cancelled February 16, 1954). 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 N54602. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data