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N583FE

Mcdonnell Douglas MD-11F

Valid Tennessee

N583FE is a Mcdonnell Douglas MD-11F, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1991. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Federal Express CORP, a corporation in Memphis, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 12, 1997.

Aircraft

Maker
Mcdonnell Douglas
Model
MD-11F · all MD-11Fs and related versions
Serial number
48421
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 3 motors · Ge CF6-80 SERIES · 47,600 lb thrust
Seats
7
Year built
1991
Transponder code
A7818F (octal 51700617)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 23, 2020
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · October 12, 1997
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00864771

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Federal Express CORP
Type
Corporation
Address
Attn Manager FAA & Ind 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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N583FE, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Federal Express CORP, a corporation, certificate issued January 23, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 12, 1997, 6 years after the 1991 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 48421 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N583FE according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N583FE: Incident on June 3, 2020 at Mumbai: no injuries. Accident on January 15, 2003 at Stansted: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 2

DCA20WA112Incident on June 3, 2020 at Mumbai: no injuries.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mcdonnell Douglas MD11 · operated under 121

The AAIB of India has notified the NTSB of an accident involving a Boeing MD11 airplane that occurred on June 03, 2020. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the AAIB's investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13.All investigative information will be released by the AAIB of India.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA20WA112 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

DCA03WA026Accident on January 15, 2003 at Stansted: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mcdonnell Douglas MD-11 · operated under NUSC

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA03WA026 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data