Boeing 747-47UF
N498MC 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 20, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 25, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 747-47UF · all 747-47UFs and related versions
- Serial number
- 29259
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 4 motors · Ge CF6-80 SERIES · 47,600 lb thrust
- Seats
- 660
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A62EE6 (octal 51427346)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 20, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · August 25, 1999
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00683687
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Atlas Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2000 Westchester Ave
Purchase, NY 10577-2539
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.
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The public federal record on N498MC, 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 20, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated August 25, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 29259 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N498MC 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 N498MC: Accident on May 17, 2010 at Miami, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 121
impact of the fore flap with the aft fuselage after fatigue failure of the right wing fore flap carriage assembly attachment fitting at position 6.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA10CA061 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data