Mcdonnell Douglas Aircraft Co MD-88
N997DL is a Mcdonnell Douglas Aircraft Co MD-88, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1992. It has 142 seats. It is registered to Tatonduk Outfitters LTD, a corporation in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 22, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas Aircraft Co
- Model
- MD-88 · all MD-88s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53364
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P & W JT8D SERIES · 7,700 lb thrust
- Seats
- 142
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- ADECFA (octal 53366372)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · January 22, 1992
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00743612
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tatonduk Outfitters LTD
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5525 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709-4470
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N997DL, 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 Tatonduk Outfitters LTD, a corporation, certificate issued February 24, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated January 22, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53364 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N997DL 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]
1 NTSB record under N997DL: Accident on October 11, 1998 at Covington, KY: no injuries, substantial 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mcdonnell Douglas MD-88 · operated under 121
The tug driver's failure to maintain a proper visual lookout.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC99LA023 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data