{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2011-08-19","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-08-12","city":"OKLAHOMA CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"027","cruise_speed_mph":173,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"51755","engine_horsepower":1450,"engine_maker":"P & W","engine_model":"R-2000","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-10","maker":"Douglas","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DOUGLAS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3021522","mode_s_code":"51576531","mode_s_hex":"A6FD59","model":"C54D-DC","n_number":"N55CW","name":"AIRCRAFT GUARANTY CORP TRUSTEE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Pontiac","damage":"DEST","date":"2006-01-27","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI06LA073","probable_cause":"The excessive bank angle executed by the flight crew and their failure to maintain airspeed during the turn, which led to the inadvertent stall and subsequent impact with the ground.  A factor was the low altitude.","registration":"N55CW","state":"MI","summary":"Accident on January 27, 2006 at Pontiac, MI: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":4,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N55CW is a Douglas C54D-DC, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 60 seats. It is registered to Aircraft Guaranty CORP Trustee, a corporation in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2011 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 19, 2011.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Aircraft Guaranty CORP Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued August 12, 2011, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 19, 2011, 69 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 10673 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N55CW was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bellanca 7ECA (serial 1294-79, cancelled April 8, 2009); Bell 206B (serial 3376, cancelled March 19, 1993). 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":"1 NTSB record under N55CW: Accident on January 27, 2006 at Pontiac, MI: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":60,"serial_number":"10673","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"928 SW 107TH ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01072886","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N55CW","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1942,"zip":"731705244"}