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N185DN

Boeing 767-332

Valid Georgia

N185DN is a Boeing 767-332, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1995. It has 330 seats. It is registered to Delta Air Lines INC, a corporation in Atlanta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 1995 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 2, 1995.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
767-332 · all 767-332s and related versions
Serial number
27961
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W PW4000 SER · 60,000 lb thrust
Seats
330
Year built
1995
Transponder code
A15397 (octal 50251627)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 3, 1995
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · May 2, 1995
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00925162

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Delta Air Lines INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1775 M H Jackson Service Rd
Dept 595 Aircraft Registrations
Atlanta, GA 30354-3743

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N185DN, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Delta Air Lines INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 3, 1995, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated May 2, 1995, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27961 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N185DN according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

3 NTSB records under N185DN: Accident on July 14, 2011 at Boston, MA: no injuries, minor damage. Incident on October 19, 2009 at Atlanta Hartsfield Intl. Apt. (Katl), GA: no injuries. Incident on June 25, 1996 at Jamaica, NY: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 3

DCA11CA084Accident on July 14, 2011 at Boston, MA: no injuries, minor damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 767 332 · operated under 121

the B767 Captain's failure to maintain a safe clearance between his wing and the tail of the CRJ900 that was stopped on a taxiway.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

OPS10IA001Incident on October 19, 2009 at Atlanta Hartsfield Intl. Apt. (Katl), GA: no injuries.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 767 · operated under 121

The flight crew’s failure to identify the correct landing surface due to fatigue. Contributing to the cause of the incident were (1) the flight crew’s decision to accept a late runway change, (2) the unavailability of the approach light system and the instrument landing system for the runway of intended landing, and (3) the combination of numerous taxiway signs and intermixing of light technologies on the taxiway.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

NYC96IA131Incident on June 25, 1996 at Jamaica, NY: no injuries, minor damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 767-332ER · operated under 121

the improper installation of the generator feed cable by the manufacturer, which resulted in a severed aileron cable due to arcing between the generator feed cable and aileron cable.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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