Boeing 757-251
N540US is a Boeing 757-251, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1996. It has 178 seats. It is registered to Delta Air Lines INC, a corporation in Atlanta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 4, 2015 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 15, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 757-251 · all 757-251s and related versions
- Serial number
- 26487
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P & W PW2037 · 37,530 lb thrust
- Seats
- 178
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A6D9BF (octal 51554677)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 4, 2015
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 15, 1996
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00255621
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Delta Air Lines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1775 M H Jackson Service Rd
Dept 595 Aircraft Registrations
Atlanta, GA 30354-3743
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 N540US, 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 Delta Air Lines INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 4, 2015, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 15, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26487 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N540US 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 N540US: Accident on August 7, 2022 at Atlanta, GA: 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 757-251 · operated under 121
The overpitch control of the airplane during landing resulting in a tail strike.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA22LA178 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