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N74874

Douglas A-26B

Valid Montana

N74874 is a Douglas A-26B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Jz Aero Montana LLC, an LLC in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated April 15, 2008. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).

Aircraft

Maker
Douglas
Model
A-26B · all A-26Bs and related versions
Serial number
44-34508R
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1944
Cruising speed
213 mph
Transponder code
AA13AC (octal 52411654)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 17, 2026
Expires
February 28, 2033
Last FAA action
February 17, 2026
Airworthiness
Limited · April 15, 2008
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00492627

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Jz Aero Montana LLC
Type
LLC
Address
PO Box 7967
Missoula, MT 59807-7967

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Documents on file 1

2026-09-28Loan or lien (security agreement)

Records check free · 2 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N74874, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Jz Aero Montana LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 17, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 15, 2008, 64 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 44-34508R for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N74874 according to the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 28, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N74874. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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