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N89FA

Douglas C-54

Valid Missouri

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Douglas
Model
C-54
Serial number
27249
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 4 motors
Seats
60
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
155 mph
Transponder code
AC4379 (octal 53041571)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 13, 2012
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · June 11, 1979
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00421801

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
South African Air Lease LLC
Type
LLC
Address
C/O Michael N Kern Attorney
130 S Bemiston Ave Ste 200
Clayton, MO 63105-1913

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.

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