Mcdonnell Douglas Aircraft Co MD 83
N805WA is a Mcdonnell Douglas Aircraft Co MD 83, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1996. It has 155 seats. It is registered to Caribbean Sun Airlines INC, a corporation in Virginia Gardens, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 12, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 24, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas Aircraft Co
- Model
- MD 83 · all MD 83s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53470
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P & W JT8D-15 · 15,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 155
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- AAF665 (octal 52573145)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 12, 2018
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · April 24, 1996
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00105941
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Caribbean Sun Airlines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 6355 NW 36Th St Ste 100
Virginia Gardens, FL 33166-7027
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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 N805WA, 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 Caribbean Sun Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 12, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated April 24, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53470 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N805WA 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 N805WA: Accident on August 23, 2025 at Miami, FL: serious injuries. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mcdonnell Douglas Aircraft CO MD 83 · operated under 121
An encounter with convective turbulence during descent that resulted in a serious injury to a flight attendant.
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- 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