{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1979-06-11","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2012-03-13","city":"CLAYTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"510","cruise_speed_mph":155,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2028-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-28","maker":"Douglas","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DOUGLAS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3021506","mode_s_code":"53041571","mode_s_hex":"AC4379","model":"C-54","n_number":"N89FA","name":"SOUTH AFRICAN AIR LEASE LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":4,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N89FA is a Douglas C-54, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 60 seats. It is registered to South African Air Lease LLC, an LLC in Clayton, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 11, 1979.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to South African Air Lease LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 13, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27249 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N89FA 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N89FA. 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":60,"serial_number":"27249","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"C/O MICHAEL N KERN ATTORNEY","street2":"130 S BEMISTON AVE STE 200","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00421801","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N89FA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"631051913"}