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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-9/MD-81/MD-82/MD-83/MD-87/MD-88/MD-89 / C-9
    Latest Model:DC-9-82
    Construction Number:49558
    Last Civil Registration:XA-UNI
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-9-82 cn 49558 cr XA-UNI
    Latest Owner or Location:Aeronaves TSM

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    Dates

    Event

    1988

    Constructed as a DC-9-82.
    MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC-9-82(MD-82) 49558

    1 March 1988

    Certificate of airworthiness for N453AA (DC-9-82(MD-82), 49558) issued.

    From 2 March 1988 to 1 December 2010

    To American Airlines with new c/r N453AA.

    Circa 19 April 2004


    Photographer: David Fogwill
    Notes: American Airlines at Palm Beach International Airport on Tuesday, 19th April 2004

    By December 2010

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    And stored at Roswell, NM.

    15 March 2013

    To Frontera Flight Holdings Inc, Dover, DE keeping c/r N453AA.

    5 November 2015

    Civil registration, N453AA, cancelled.
    Exported to Mexico.

    July 2016

    Converted to dedicated freighter by Aeronautical Engineers Inc.

    By 1 August 2016

    To Aeronaves TSM with new c/r XA-UNI.

    Circa 21 June 2023


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: at Hamilton International Airport (YHM), Canada
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