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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N906FX

Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR 42-320

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTennessee

N906FX is an Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR 42-320, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 50 seats. It is registered to Federal Express CORP, a corporation in Memphis, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 2003 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 11, 1993.

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Aircraft

Maker
Aerospatiale/Aeritalia
Model
ATR 42-320 · all ATR 42-320s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Aluminium fuselage, composite wing box and tail. This is how the Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR 42 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
280
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
TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW121 · 1950 hp
Seats
50
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AC8609 (octal 53103011)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
February 6, 2003
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
April 14, 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 · January 11, 1993
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00254212

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Federal Express CORP
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
3630 Hacks Cross Rd Bldg C Fl 2Nd
Memphis, TN 38125-8800

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N906FX links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Live

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N906FX, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Federal Express CORP, a corporation, certificate issued February 6, 2003, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 280 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N906FX according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N906FX. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data