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N500EJ

Douglas C54-D

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Douglas
Model
C54-D
Serial number
43-17228
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 4 motors · P & W R-2000 SERIES · 1450 hp
Seats
60
Year built
1943
Cruising speed
173 mph
Transponder code
A63A5D (octal 51435135)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 12, 2021
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · June 20, 1983
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00741631

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Berlin Airlift Historial Foundation
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 782
Farmingdale, NJ 07727-0782

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

2020-10-05Douglas C54E-DC · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data