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Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-15F
N782TW is a Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-15F, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1967. It has 116 seats. It is registered to Sierra American CORP, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The FAA lists the registration as "first notice for registration renewal" (certificate issued April 13, 2011). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 18, 1996.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas
- Model
- DC-9-15F · all DC-9-15Fs 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
- 45826
- 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
- TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P & W JT8D SERIES · 7,700 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 116
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 315 mph
- Transponder code
- AA99B2 (octal 52514662)
Registration
- Status
- First notice for registration renewalFAA registration status code 25 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 2011
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 18, 1996
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00061203
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sierra American CORP
- 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
- 2801 Centerville Rd Pmb 5128
Wilmington, DE 19808-1609
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N782TW 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 series 82 aircraft with this engine series · 7,700 lb thrust
- Sierra American CORP 10 aircraft in the fleet
- Wilmington, DE 7,369 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,958 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 series 69 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney JT8D series 3,031 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Control Valve, stuck · 2026-04-03
- Report filed on this aircraft: Attach Fitting, corroded · 2015-09-17
- Report filed on this aircraft: Stiffener, corroded · 2015-06-18
- Where N782TW is now · Last seen today at 9:09 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N782TW.json.
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The public federal record on N782TW, 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.
Registration status is "First notice for registration renewal". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 18, 1996, 29 years after the 1967 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 45826 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N782TW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 707-131B (serial 18401, cancelled October 21, 1982). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N782TW. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data