Douglas DC-6A
N578AS is a Douglas DC-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 96 seats. It is registered to Nighthawk Air Systems INC, a corporation in Miami, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated October 8, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC-6A · all DC-6As and related versions
- Serial number
- 44650
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 4 motors · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
- Seats
- 96
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 216 mph
- Transponder code
- A76C32 (octal 51666062)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · October 8, 2003
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00800727
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nighthawk Air Systems INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 9785 SW 181St Ter Ste 200
Miami, FL 33157
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N578AS, 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 Nighthawk Air Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 27, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for to show compliance with regulations; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 44650 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N578AS 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 N578AS. 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