{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1992-07-31","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2008-05-09","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":150,"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":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-10-22","maker":"Douglas","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DOUGLAS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3021458","mode_s_code":"50172044","mode_s_hex":"A0F424","model":"DC3C-S1C3G","n_number":"N16005","name":"N1944M LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Index","damage":"SUBS","date":"2002-09-13","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"SEA02LA174","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from terrain while hovering.","registration":"N16005","state":"WA","summary":"Accident on September 13, 2002 at Index, WA: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N16005 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 N1944M LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2008 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated July 31, 1992.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to N1944M LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 9, 2008, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 31, 1992, 50 years after the 1942 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 19394 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N16005 according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"1 NTSB record under N16005: Accident on September 13, 2002 at Index, WA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"19394","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"108 W 13TH ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00273752","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N16005","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1942,"zip":"198011145"}