Douglas DC3C-S1C3G
N574JB is a Douglas DC3C-S1C3G, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 32 seats. It is registered to War Eagles Air Museum, a corporation in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. The FAA lists the registration as "first notice for registration renewal" (certificate issued April 10, 2007). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 24, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC3C-S1C3G · all DC3C-S1C3Gs 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
- 20145
- 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
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 32
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A75E0F (octal 51657017)
Registration
- Status
- First notice for registration renewalFAA registration status code 25 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 10, 2007
- Expires
- January 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- 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 · January 24, 1956
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00160150
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- War Eagles Air Museum
- 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
- 8012 Airport Rd
Santa Teresa, NM 88008-9719
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N574JB 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
- Pratt & Whitney R-1830 series 116 aircraft with this engine series · 1350 hp
- War Eagles Air Museum 25 aircraft in the fleet
- Santa Teresa, NM 75 aircraft registered in this town
- Dona Ana County International Jetport · DNA
- New Mexico 3,111 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
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 series 12 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N574JB, 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.
Registration status is "First notice for registration renewal". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 24, 1956, 12 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 20145 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N574JB according to the deregistered file. [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 N574JB. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data