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Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-83(MD-83)
N948TW is a Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-83(MD-83), a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. It has 172 seats. It is registered to Kc Aviation Stem INC, a corporation in Kansas City, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas
- Model
- DC-9-83(MD-83) · all DC-9-83(MD-83)s 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 Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9 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
- 49575
- 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
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors
- Seats
- 172
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AD2C9E (octal 53226236)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 14, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00463824
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kc Aviation Stem 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
- PO Box 902083
Kansas City, MO 64190-2083
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 N948TW links to the rest of the register
- Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9 93 registered
- Mcdonnell Douglas 254 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Kc Aviation Stem INC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Kansas City, MO 230 aircraft registered in this town
- Kansas City Downtown/Wheeler Field · MKC
- Kansas City International · MCI
- Missouri 5,821 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9 402 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9 16,649 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9 873 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Circuit Breaker, popped · 2014-05-14
- Report filed on this aircraft: Wire, broken · 2014-03-20
- Report filed on this aircraft: Sensor, faulty · 2013-12-23
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N948TW.json.
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The public federal record on N948TW, 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 Kc Aviation Stem INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 14, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 49575 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N948TW 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 N948TW. 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 November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data