{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2026-03-06","airworthiness_ops":"Market survey","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-03-30","city":"SAN ANTONIO","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","cruise_speed_mph":315,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Loan or lien (security agreement)","doc_type_code":"S/A","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-08"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"51549","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"P & W","engine_model":"JT9D-59A","engine_thrust_lb":51720,"expiration_date":"2029-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"airliners","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-22","maker":"Douglas","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DOUGLAS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3023508","mode_s_code":"53312160","mode_s_hex":"AD9470","model":"DC-10-40","n_number":"N974VV","name":"AIRCRAFT ENDEAVORS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":3,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Aircraft Endeavors LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 30, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 46974 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N974VV according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N974VV. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":345,"serial_number":"46974","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"TRINITY II PLAZA","street2":"745 E MULBERRY AVE FL 9","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00205959","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N974VV","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"782123163"}