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N476MC, a Boeing 747-47UF
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N476MC

Boeing 747-47UF

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

N476MC is a Boeing 747-47UF, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1999. 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 28, 2011 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 30, 1999.

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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
29256
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 CF6-6 · 40,000 lb thrust
Seats
660
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A5D87A (octal 51354172)

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 28, 2011
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 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 · April 30, 1999
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00223916

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 of Qa/Qc
2000 Westchester Ave
Purchase, NY 10577-2530

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N476MC links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Purchase, NY 75 aircraft registered in this town
  • New York 6,669 aircraft registered
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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N476MC, 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 28, 2011, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated April 30, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 29256 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N476MC 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 N476MC: Incident on June 12, 2025 at Guayaquil: 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 1

DCA25LA233Incident on June 12, 2025 at Guayaquil: no injuries, minor damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 747-47UF · operated under 121

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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data