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N480MC

Boeing 747-422

Valid New York

N480MC is a Boeing 747-422, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1999. It has 495 seats. It is registered to Atlas Air INC, a corporation in Purchase, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 13, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 29, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
747-422 · all 747-422s and related versions
Serial number
28812
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 4 motors · P&W PW4000 SER · 60,000 lb thrust
Seats
495
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A5E9AF (octal 51364657)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 13, 2019
Expires
June 30, 2029
Last FAA action
August 11, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · March 29, 1999
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00216491

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Atlas Air INC
Type
Corporation
Address
2000 Westchester Ave
Purchase, NY 10577-2538

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N480MC, 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 June 13, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated March 29, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28812 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N480MC 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N480MC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 August 27, 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