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Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82(MD-82)
N483A is a Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82(MD-82), a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1988. It has 172 seats. It is registered to Arctic One LLC, an LLC in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 19, 2018 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 15, 1988.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas
- Model
- DC-9-82(MD-82) · all DC-9-82(MD-82)s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 49676
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P & W JT8D SERIES · 7,700 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 172
- Year built
- 1988
- Transponder code
- A5F3BE (octal 51371676)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 19, 2018
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 15, 1988
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00755440
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Arctic One LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5525 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709-4470
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.
Connections how N483A links to the rest of the register
- Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9 93 registered
- Mcdonnell Douglas 254 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney JT8D series 82 aircraft with this engine series · 7,700 lb thrust
- Arctic One LLC 17 aircraft in the fleet
- Fairbanks, AK 842 aircraft registered in this town
- Fairbanks International · FAI
- Gold King Creek Airport · AK7
- Chena River Seaplane Base · 2Z5
- Alaska 9,144 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9 402 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9 16,649 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9 873 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney JT8D series 69 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney JT8D series 3,031 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Line, leaking · 2017-03-09
- Report filed on this aircraft: Regulator, faulty · 2016-05-30
- Report filed on this aircraft: Line, broken · 2016-05-30
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The public federal record on N483A, 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 Arctic One LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 19, 2018, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated December 15, 1988, consistent with the 1988 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 49676 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N483A 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 N483A: Incident on December 14, 2009 at Charlotte, NC: no injuries, 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: Boeing MD · operated under 121
The Captain's failure to initiate a go-around from a Category III approach when satisfactory tracking performance was not maintained below the required altitude resulting in excessive bank angle maneuvers at low altitude. Factors contributing to the incident were: The Captain's decision to execute a Category III autoland approach on a runway without rollout guidance contrary to company Flight Manual guidance, the Captain's decision to deviate from the Category III approach and continue it manually contrary to the company Operating Manual, and the First Officer's failure to call for a go-around when the approach became unstable.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data