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Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-83(MD-83)
N637SH is a Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-83(MD-83), a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. It has 172 seats. It is registered to Pacific Aircorp 49741 INC, a corporation in San Francisco, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 4, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds a special flight permit airworthiness certificate for delivery or export, dated December 17, 2009.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas
- Model
- DC-9-83(MD-83) · all DC-9-83(MD-83)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
- 49568
- 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-219 · 21,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 172
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A85955 (octal 52054525)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 4, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Special flight permitFAA airworthiness class code 8 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Delivery or exportFAA certificate purpose code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 17, 2009
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00403966
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pacific Aircorp 49741 INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- C/O Sky Aviation Leasing Mgmt LLC
559 Pacific Ave
San Francisco, CA 94133-4612
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N637SH 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-219 22 aircraft with this engine series · 21,000 lb thrust
- Pacific Aircorp 49741 INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- San Francisco, CA 295 aircraft registered in this town
- San Francisco International · SFO
- California 27,686 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-219 36 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney JT8D-219 1,944 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N637SH, 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 Pacific Aircorp 49741 INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 4, 2020, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Special flight permit certificate for delivery or export; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 49568 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N637SH 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N637SH. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data