Douglas DC3C-S4C4G
N8704 is a Douglas DC3C-S4C4G, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 32 seats. It is registered to Yankee Air Force INC, a corporation in Belleville, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 12, 1982 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 16, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC3C-S4C4G · all DC3C-S4C4Gs and related versions
- Serial number
- 33048
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P & W R-1830 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Seats
- 32
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- ABF93A (octal 52774472)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 12, 1982
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 16, 1984
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00182271
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Yankee Air Force INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 590
Belleville, MI 48112-0590
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8704, 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 Yankee Air Force INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 12, 1982, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 16, 1984, 40 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 33048 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8704 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Travel Air A-6000-A (serial 981, cancelled February 27, 1942). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8704. 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