{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1987-03-02","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1996-08-23","city":"CHARLOTTE","country_code":"US","county_code":"119","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":"2028-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-19","maker":"Douglas","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DOUGLAS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3021401","mode_s_code":"51245037","mode_s_hex":"A54A1F","model":"DC3","n_number":"N44V","name":"CAROLINAS AVIATION MUSEUM","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N44V is a Douglas DC3, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1942. It has 32 seats. It is registered to Carolinas Aviation Museum, a corporation in Charlotte, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 23, 1996 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 2, 1987.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Carolinas Aviation Museum, a corporation, certificate issued August 23, 1996, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 2, 1987, 45 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 4545 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N44V was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Douglas C-47 (serial 9914, cancelled November 28, 1961); Granville Brothers Aircraft GEE BEE A (serial P-7, cancelled April 6, 1948). 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 N44V. 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":32,"serial_number":"4545","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1026 JAY ST STE B","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00913044","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N44V","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1942,"zip":"282084431"}