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N603FE

Mcdonnell Douglas MD-11F

Valid Tennessee

N603FE 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 September 7, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 6, 1991.

Aircraft

Maker
Mcdonnell Douglas
Model
MD-11F · all MD-11Fs and related versions
Serial number
48459
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 3 motors · Ge CF6-80 SERIES · 47,600 lb thrust
Seats
7
Year built
1991
Transponder code
A7D2E6 (octal 51751346)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 7, 2016
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · September 6, 1991
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00904721

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Federal Express CORP
Type
Corporation
Address
Attn: Mgr 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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N603FE, 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 September 7, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated September 6, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 48459 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N603FE 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

1 NTSB record under N603FE: Incident on September 29, 1994 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries, minor 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 1

FTW94IA321Incident on September 29, 1994 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries, minor damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mcdonnell Douglas MD-11-F · operated under 121

RIGHT INBOARD FLAP VANE COMPONENT SEPARATION DUE TO UNDETERMINED REASONS.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW94IA321 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