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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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC-8-73 · all DC-8-73s 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 Douglas DC-8 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
- 46123
- 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 · Cfm Intl. CFM56 SERIES · 2200 hp
- Seats
- 152
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AAED55 (octal 52566525)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 20, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 20, 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 · March 8, 1994
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00784732
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heavylift Cargo Airlines 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
- 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.
Connections how N803DH links to the rest of the register
- Douglas DC-8 6 registered
- Douglas 305 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- CFM International CFM56 series 708 aircraft with this engine series · 2200 hp
- Type certificate 4A25 · held by The Boeing Company
- Heavylift Cargo Airlines INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Kingman, AZ 105 aircraft registered in this town
- Kingman Airport · IGM
- Arizona 8,410 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Douglas DC-8 162 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Douglas DC-8 17,000 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Douglas DC-8 458 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the CFM International CFM56 series 56 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the CFM International CFM56 series 2,447 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Blade, missing · 2012-01-31
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fire Detector, malfunctioned · 2012-01-06
- Report filed on this aircraft: Seat Track, worn · 2010-10-29
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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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data