{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1983-06-20","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-01-12","city":"FARMINGDALE","country_code":"US","county_code":"025","cruise_speed_mph":173,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52023","engine_horsepower":1450,"engine_maker":"P & W","engine_model":"R-2000 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-14","maker":"Douglas","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DOUGLAS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3021524","mode_s_code":"51435135","mode_s_hex":"A63A5D","model":"C54-D","n_number":"N500EJ","name":"BERLIN AIRLIFT HISTORIAL FOUNDATION","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":4,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N500EJ is a Douglas C54-D, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 60 seats. It is registered to Berlin Airlift Historial Foundation, a corporation in Farmingdale, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 12, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 20, 1983.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Berlin Airlift Historial Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued January 12, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 20, 1983, 40 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 43-17228 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N500EJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas C54E-DC (serial 27370, cancelled October 5, 2020). 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 N500EJ. 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":60,"serial_number":"43-17228","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NJ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 782","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00741631","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N500EJ","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1943,"zip":"077270782"}