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Boeing 747-47UF
N409MC is a Boeing 747-47UF, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2000. It has 660 seats. It is registered to Atlas Air INC, a corporation in Purchase, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 13, 2016 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 31, 2000.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 7:56 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 747-47UF · all 747-47UFs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Boeing 747 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 30558
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 4 motors · Ge CF6-80 SERIES · 47,600 lb thrust
- Seats
- 660
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A4CF26 (octal 51147446)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 13, 2016
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 31, 2000
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00705670
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Atlas Air INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- C/O Director Qa/Qc
2000 Westchester Ave
Purchase, NY 10577-2530
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N409MC links to the rest of the register
- Boeing 747 192 registered
- Boeing 6,675 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- General Electric CF6-80 series 237 aircraft with this engine series · 47,600 lb thrust
- Atlas Air INC 53 aircraft in the fleet
- Purchase, NY 75 aircraft registered in this town
- New York 6,663 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing 747 866 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing 747 52,436 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing 747 1,448 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the General Electric CF6-80 series 147 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the General Electric CF6-80 series 2,928 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Switch, faulted · 2026-08-20
- Report filed on this aircraft: Coupler, faulted · 2025-11-24
- Report filed on this aircraft: Keelbeam, corroded · 2025-05-15
- Where N409MC is now · Last seen Thursday at 7:56 pm.
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The public federal record on N409MC, 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 Atlas Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 13, 2016, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated March 31, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30558 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N409MC 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 N409MC: Incident on September 9, 2012 at Melbourne. 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: Boeing 747-47UF · operated under 121
On September 9, 2012 a Boeing 747 operated by Atlas Air did not comply with the height and tracking requirements of the BADGR SIX STAR to Melbourne Airport. The investigation is being conducted by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. www.atsb.gov.au
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data