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N418MC, a Boeing 747-47UF
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N418MC

Boeing 747-47UF

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNew York

N418MC is a Boeing 747-47UF, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2002. 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 December 8, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 27, 2002.

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Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
747-47UF · all 747-47UFs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
32840
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
2002
Transponder code
A4F2EE (octal 51171356)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 8, 2022
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 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 · November 27, 2002
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00493996

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
2000 Westchester Ave
Purchase, NY 10577-2539

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N418MC links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Purchase, NY 75 aircraft registered in this town
  • New York 6,663 aircraft registered
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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N418MC, 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 Atlas Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 8, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated November 27, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32840 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N418MC 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

1 NTSB record under N418MC: Incident on July 24, 2006 at Chicago, IL: no injuries. 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 1

OPS06IA008Incident on July 24, 2006 at Chicago, IL: no injuries.serial on NTSB record: N418MC

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 747 · operated under 125

The failure of the ORD tower south local controller to monitor Atlas Air flight 6972 on arrival to runway 14R and subsequently clearing United Airlines flight 1015 for takeoff on intersecting runway 27L causing a loss of separation between the two aircraft.

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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data