Boeing 747-47UF
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
- 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
- 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
- Boeing 747 192 registered
- Boeing 6,676 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 238 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 747 867 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing 747 52,441 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: Apu, odor · 2026-07-23
- Report filed on this aircraft: Repair, not reported · 2026-05-14
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fitting, corroded · 2026-05-14
- Where N418MC is now · Last seen today at 7:20 am.
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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.
Valid registration to Atlas Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 8, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated November 27, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32840 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N418MC 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 N418MC: Incident on July 24, 2006 at Chicago, IL: no injuries. 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 · 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
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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
