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N685FE

Airbus Industrie A300 F4-605R

Valid Tennessee

N685FE is an Airbus Industrie A300 F4-605R, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1999. It has 380 seats. It is registered to Federal Express CORP, a corporation in Memphis, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 24, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 12, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Airbus Industrie
Model
A300 F4-605R · all A300 F4-605Rs and related versions
Serial number
0803
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbojet, 2 motors · Ge CF6-80 SERIES · 47,600 lb thrust
Seats
380
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A9164C (octal 52213114)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 24, 2023
Expires
December 31, 2030
Last FAA action
December 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · October 12, 1999
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00695882

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Federal Express CORP
Type
Corporation
Address
Attn: Manager FAA & Ind Affairs
3131 Democrat Rd
Memphis, TN 38118

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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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N685FE, 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 December 24, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated October 12, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0803 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N685FE 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N685FE. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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