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Douglas DC3C-S1C3G
N74589 is a Douglas DC3C-S1C3G, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 32 seats. It is registered to Tunison Foundation INC, a corporation in Oxford, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 28, 2018 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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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
- 9926
- 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
- Seats
- 32
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- AA08AF (octal 52404257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 28, 2018
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 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
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00932537
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tunison Foundation 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
- C/O Tradewind Aviation
3 Juliano Dr
Oxford, CT 06478-1043
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N74589 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
- Tunison Foundation INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Oxford, CT 67 aircraft registered in this town
- Waterbury-Oxford Airport · OXC
- Connecticut 1,607 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 N74589, 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 Tunison Foundation INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 28, 2018, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9926 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N74589 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 N74589. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data