{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1995-05-03","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-05-10","city":"DURHAM","country_code":"US","county_code":"063","cruise_speed_mph":174,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52020","engine_horsepower":1350,"engine_maker":"P & W","engine_model":"R-1830 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-24","maker":"Douglas","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DOUGLAS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3021401","mode_s_code":"50020537","mode_s_hex":"A0215F","model":"DC3","n_number":"N1072M","name":"BIG FLATS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N1072M is a Douglas DC3, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1943. It has 32 seats. It is registered to Big Flats LLC, an LLC in Durham, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 3, 1995.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Big Flats LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 10, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 3, 1995, 52 years after the 1943 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9832 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N1072M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T210J (serial T210-0452, cancelled March 23, 2018). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N1072M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":32,"serial_number":"9832","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6409 FAYETTEVILLE RD STE 120-341","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00165591","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1072M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1943,"zip":"27713"}