Mcdonnell Douglas Aircraft Co MD-88
N832US is a Mcdonnell Douglas Aircraft Co MD-88, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1991. It has 142 seats. It is registered to USA Jet Airlines INC, a corporation in Belleville, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 17, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 29, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas Aircraft Co
- Model
- MD-88 · all MD-88s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53259
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P & W JT8D-219 · 21,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 142
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- AB619B (octal 52660633)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 17, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · November 29, 2021
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00615341
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- USA Jet Airlines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2068 E St
Belleville, MI 48111-1262
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N832US, 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 USA Jet Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 17, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 29, 2021, 30 years after the 1991 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 53259 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N832US was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Us/Lta 138S (serial 002, cancelled October 21, 2013). 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]
2 NTSB records under N832US: Accident on July 4, 1993 at New York, NY: serious injuries, destroyed. Incident on May 25, 1993 at Santa Maria, CA: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Us/Lta 138S AIRSHIP · operated under 091
INADEQUATE DESIGN OF, AND DESIGN STANDARDS FOR, THE AIRSHIP WHICH RESULTED IN AN ENVELOPE FAILURE FOLLOWING SEPARATION OF A PORTION OF THE NIGHT SIGN EQUIPMENT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO93FA107 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Us/Lta 138-S · operated under 091
INADEQUATE SPECIFICATIONS IN THE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF A RUDDER CONTROL TUBE ROD END BEARING BY THE AIRSHIP MANUFACTURER.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX93IA235 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
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