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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.
Where is it now Last seen Tuesday at 12:34 pm.
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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
- 29259
- 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
- Fuel
- Electricity
- Seats
- 660
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A62EE6 (octal 51427346)
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 20, 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 · August 25, 1999
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00683687
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
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.
Connections how N498MC links to the rest of the register
- Boeing 747 192 registered
- Boeing 6,677 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 6,658 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing 747 867 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing 747 52,487 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing 747 1,449 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: Hydraulic System, leaking · 2026-09-29
- Report filed on this aircraft: Actuator, leaking · 2026-09-12
- Report filed on this aircraft: Shutoff Valve, broken · 2026-09-07
- Where N498MC is now · Last seen Tuesday at 12:34 pm.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data