Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-15F
N783TW is a Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-15F, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1966. It has 116 seats. It is registered to Sierra American CORP, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 2, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas
- Model
- DC-9-15F · all DC-9-15Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 47010
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbojet, 2 motors · P & W JT8D SERIES · 7,700 lb thrust
- Seats
- 116
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 315 mph
- Transponder code
- AA9D69 (octal 52516551)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 1, 2005
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · February 2, 1999
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00220875
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sierra American CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N783TW, 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 Sierra American CORP, a corporation, certificate issued February 1, 2005, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 2, 1999, 33 years after the 1966 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 47010 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N783TW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 707-131B (serial 18402, cancelled August 23, 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 N783TW. 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 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
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