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Mcdonnell Douglas DC-8-63
N797AL is a Mcdonnell Douglas DC-8-63, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1972. It has 152 seats. It is registered to Skybus Jet Cargo INC, a corporation in Las Vegas, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 24, 1989.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas
- Model
- DC-8-63
- Serial number
- 46163
- 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, 4 motors · P & W JT3D SERIES · 17,700 lb thrust
- Seats
- 152
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 444 mph
- Transponder code
- AAD211 (octal 52551021)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 31, 2026
- 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 · May 24, 1989
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00034881
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skybus Jet Cargo 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
- 2215 Renaissance Dr Ste B
Las Vegas, NV 89119-6727
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N797AL links to the rest of the register
- Mcdonnell Douglas 254 aircraft on the register
- Pratt & Whitney JT3D series 2 aircraft with this engine series · 17,700 lb thrust
- Type certificate 4A25 · held by The Boeing Company
- Skybus Jet Cargo INC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Las Vegas, NV 1,135 aircraft registered in this town
- Harry Reid International · LAS
- Henderson Executive · HND
- North Las Vegas Airport · VGT
- Nevada 4,588 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney JT3D series 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney JT3D series 403 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Transponder, failed · 2000-08-09
- Report filed on this aircraft: Engine, malfunctioned · 2000-04-15
- Report filed on this aircraft: Switch, out of adjust · 1999-06-23
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The public federal record on N797AL, 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 Skybus Jet Cargo INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 31, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 24, 1989, 17 years after the 1972 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 46163 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N797AL 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 N797AL. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data