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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR 42-300
N916FX is an Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR 42-300, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1992. It has 50 seats. It is registered to Federal Express CORP, a corporation in Memphis, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2004 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 30, 1992.
Listed on the FAA airline and charter certificates of Mountain Air Cargo, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerospatiale/Aeritalia
- Model
- ATR 42-300 · all ATR 42-300s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA 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
- 314
- 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 PW120 · 1800 hp
- Seats
- 50
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- ACAD88 (octal 53126610)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 15, 2004
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 26, 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 · September 30, 1992
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00813972
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
- Vp Supplemental Air Operations
3630 Hacks Cross Rd
Memphis, TN 38125-8800
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.
Connections how N916FX links to the rest of the register
- Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR 42 16 registered
- Aerospatiale/Aeritalia 17 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Mountain Air Cargo, Inc. · airline and charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120 17 aircraft with this engine series · 1800 hp
- Federal Express CORP 586 aircraft in the fleet
- Memphis, TN 1,014 aircraft registered in this town
- Frederick W Smith Intl/Memphis Airport · MEM
- General Dewitt Spain Airport · M01
- Tennessee 6,518 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR 42 171 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR 42 5,702 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR 42 106 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120 14 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120 667 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Pressure Plate, corroded · 2024-06-16
- Report filed on this aircraft: Unknown, unknown · 2023-05-03
- Report filed on this aircraft: Starter Gen, faulted · 2022-12-15
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N916FX.json.
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The public federal record on N916FX, 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 Federal Express CORP, a corporation, certificate issued March 15, 2004, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated September 30, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 314 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N916FX 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N916FX. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data