Douglas DC-8-73
N803DH is a Douglas DC-8-73, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines. It has 152 seats. It is registered to Heavylift Cargo Airlines INC, a corporation in Kingman, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 8, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC-8-73 · all DC-8-73s and related versions
- Serial number
- 46123
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbojet, 4 motors · Cfm Intl. CFM56 SERIES · 2200 hp
- Seats
- 152
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AAED55 (octal 52566525)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 20, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · March 8, 1994
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00784732
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heavylift Cargo Airlines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 9800 Flightline Dr
Kingman, AZ 86401-6746
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N803DH, 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 Heavylift Cargo Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 20, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 46123 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N803DH 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]
1 NTSB record under N803DH: Incident on January 7, 2010 at Cincinnati (Cvg), OH: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Douglas DC8 · operated under 121
Failure of the NLG cylinder occurred by intergranular rupture; coincidental to a chrome plating crack. The failure origin occurred along the inner surface of the cylinder and then propagated by stress corrosion cracking to the outer surface. A secondary crack with the same features as the primary crack was found diagonal to the primary crack. Both cracks initiated by intergranular cracking due to grinding burns caused by abusive grinding and propagated by stress corrosion cracking. Hydrogen embrittlement did not contribute to the intergranular cracking.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ENG10IA016 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data