Douglas DC-10-40
N974VV is a Douglas DC-10-40, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1979. It has 345 seats. It is registered to Aircraft Endeavors LLC, an LLC in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 30, 2016 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for market survey, dated March 6, 2026. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas
- Model
- DC-10-40 · all DC-10-40s and related versions
- Serial number
- 46974
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 3 motors · P & W JT9D-59A · 51,720 lb thrust
- Seats
- 345
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 315 mph
- Transponder code
- AD9470 (octal 53312160)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 30, 2016
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Market survey · March 6, 2026
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00205959
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aircraft Endeavors LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- Trinity II Plaza
745 E Mulberry Ave Fl 9
San Antonio, TX 78212-3163
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N974VV, 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 Aircraft Endeavors LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 30, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 6, 2026, 47 years after the 1979 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 46974 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N974VV according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 8, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N974VV. 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 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