Mcdonnell Douglas MD-10-30F
N303FE is a Mcdonnell Douglas MD-10-30F, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1973. It has 385 seats. It is registered to Federal Express Corporation, a corporation in Memphis, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 1984 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 4, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas
- Model
- MD-10-30F · all MD-10-30Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 46802
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 3 motors · Ge CF6-50 SER · 50,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 385
- Year built
- 1973
- Transponder code
- A32AF9 (octal 50625371)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 3, 1984
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · April 4, 2002
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00013030
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Federal Express Corporation
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Manager FAA & Industry Affairs
3131 Democrat Rd
Memphis, TN 38118-1516
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.
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The public federal record on N303FE, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Federal Express Corporation, a corporation, certificate issued April 3, 1984, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 4, 2002, 29 years after the 1973 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. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 46802 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N303FE according to the deregistered file. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N303FE: Accident on March 6, 1998 at Memphis, TN: serious injuries. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Douglas DC-10-30F · operated under 121
ground personnel (an equipment loader) failed to follow established written procedures (ramp safety policy), resulting in a pressurized entry door being opened before it was fully depressurized, subsequently injurying the equipment loader. The malfunctioning outflow valve was a related factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA98LA096 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data