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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC-6A · all DC-6As 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-6 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
- 44650
- 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, 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 registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 8, 2003
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00800727
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nighthawk Air Systems INC
- 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
- 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.
Connections how N578AS links to the rest of the register
- Douglas DC-6 17 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-2800 series 173 aircraft with this engine series · 2000 hp
- Nighthawk Air Systems INC 14 aircraft in the fleet
- Miami, FL 799 aircraft registered in this town
- Miami Executive · TMB
- Miami International · MIA
- Miami-Opa Locka Executive · OPF
- Dade-Collier Training And Transition Airport · TNT
- 1 more landing places in town
- Florida 21,706 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Douglas DC-6 610 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Douglas DC-6 87 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 series 446 reports since 1995
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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 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