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Douglas C-118A
N747CE is a Douglas C-118A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 96 seats. It is registered to Tatonduk Outfitters LTD, a corporation in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2012 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 21, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- C-118A · all C-118As 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 C-118 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
- 44661
- 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
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 96
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 216 mph
- Transponder code
- AA0CC2 (octal 52406302)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 7, 2012
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 21, 2008
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00302926
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tatonduk Outfitters LTD
- 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
- PO Box 61680
Fairbanks, AK 99706-1680
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 N747CE links to the rest of the register
- Douglas C-118 9 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
- Tatonduk Outfitters LTD 14 aircraft in the fleet
- Fairbanks, AK 842 aircraft registered in this town
- Fairbanks International · FAI
- Gold King Creek Airport · AK7
- Chena River Seaplane Base · 2Z5
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Douglas C-118 120 reports since 1995
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 series 446 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Flange, cracked · 2026-05-19
- Report filed on this aircraft: Doubler, corroded · 2026-05-19
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skin, corroded · 2026-05-19
- Where N747CE is now · Last seen yesterday at 3:09 pm.
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The public federal record on N747CE, 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 Tatonduk Outfitters LTD, a corporation, certificate issued September 7, 2012, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 21, 2008, 53 years after the 1955 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 44661 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N747CE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31-310 (serial 31-673, cancelled December 14, 1982). 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]
1 NTSB record under N747CE: Accident on February 7, 1982 at Ft. Pierce, FL: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-31 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data