{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2008-10-21","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2012-09-07","city":"FAIRBANKS","country_code":"US","county_code":"090","cruise_speed_mph":216,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52026","engine_horsepower":2000,"engine_maker":"P & W","engine_model":"R-2800 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-10","maker":"Douglas","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DOUGLAS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3021710","mode_s_code":"52406302","mode_s_hex":"AA0CC2","model":"C-118A","n_number":"N747CE","name":"TATONDUK OUTFITTERS LTD","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"FT. PIERCE","damage":"DEST","date":"1982-02-07","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"MIA82FLD15","probable_cause":"","registration":"N747CE","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on February 7, 1982 at Ft. Pierce, FL: serious injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":4,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N747CE is a Douglas C-118A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 96 seats. It is registered to Tatonduk Outfitters LTD, a corporation in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2012 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 21, 2008.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Tatonduk Outfitters LTD, a corporation, certificate issued September 7, 2012, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 21, 2008, 53 years after the 1955 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 44661 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N747CE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31-310 (serial 31-673, cancelled December 14, 1982). 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 N747CE: Accident on February 7, 1982 at Ft. Pierce, FL: serious injuries, destroyed. 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":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":96,"serial_number":"44661","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 61680","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00302926","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N747CE","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1955,"zip":"997061680"}