Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-83(MD-83)
N590AA is a Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-83(MD-83), a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1991. It has 172 seats. It is registered to Frontera Flight Holdings INC, a corporation in Dover, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 11, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 24, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas
- Model
- DC-9-83(MD-83) · all DC-9-83(MD-83)s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53253
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P & W JT8D SERIES · 7,700 lb thrust
- Seats
- 172
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A79D68 (octal 51716550)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 11, 2022
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · September 24, 1991
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00164831
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Frontera Flight Holdings INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3500 S Dupont Hwy
Dover, DE 19901-6041
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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 N590AA, 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 Frontera Flight Holdings INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 11, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated September 24, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53253 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N590AA 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 N590AA: Accident on December 22, 1996 at San Jose, CA: serious injuries. Details below. [4]
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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-83 · operated under 121
The flight's encounter with severe turbulence while the injured cabin crew was standing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX97LA072 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