{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2009-10-27","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-11-06","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"30085","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"GE","engine_model":"CF6-50C2","engine_thrust_lb":51800,"expiration_date":"2030-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"airliners","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-05-05","maker":"Mcdonnell Douglas","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MCDONNELL DOUGLAS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3024020","mode_s_code":"50052206","mode_s_hex":"A05486","model":"MD-10-30F","n_number":"N120JM","name":"SOUTH AIRCRAFT LEASING INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":3,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N120JM is a Mcdonnell Douglas MD-10-30F, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1988. It has 385 seats. It is registered to South Aircraft Leasing INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 6, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 27, 2009.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to South Aircraft Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 6, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 27, 2009, 21 years after the 1988 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 48311 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N120JM was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: DJI INSPIRE 1 (serial W13DBL15010114, cancelled March 11, 2019); Beech 65-A90 (serial LJ125, cancelled July 7, 1992). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N120JM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":385,"serial_number":"48311","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"251 LITTLE FALLS DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00142246","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N120JM","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1988,"zip":"198081674"}