Mcdonnell Douglas MD-10-30F
N304FE is a Mcdonnell Douglas MD-10-30F, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1978. It has 385 seats. It is registered to Federal Express Corporation, a corporation in Memphis, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 1984 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 28, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas
- Model
- MD-10-30F · all MD-10-30Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 46992
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 3 motors · Ge CF6-50C2 · 51,800 lb thrust
- Seats
- 385
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A32EB0 (octal 50627260)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 2, 1984
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · March 28, 2007
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00810320
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Federal Express Corporation
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Manager FAA & Industry Affairs
3131 Democrat Rd
Memphis, TN 38118-1516
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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 N304FE, 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 July 2, 1984, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 28, 2007, 29 years after the 1978 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 46992 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N304FE 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 N304FE: Incident on February 13, 2012 at Portland, OR: minor damage. 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: Mcdonnell Douglas MD-10-30F · operated under 121
The fracture of the fan mid shaft due to a stress corrosion cracking initiated by local regions of corrosion pitting, which resulted from oil migration within the shaft and its subsequent degradation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ENG12IA012 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