Boeing 757-251
N543US 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 May 3, 2016 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 15, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 757-251 · all 757-251s and related versions
- Serial number
- 26490
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P & W PW2037 · 37,530 lb thrust
- Seats
- 178
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A6E4E4 (octal 51562344)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 3, 2016
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · May 15, 1996
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00285621
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Delta Air Lines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1775 Mh Jackson Service Rd
Dept 595 Aircraft Registrations
Atlanta, GA 30354
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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 N543US, 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 May 3, 2016, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated May 15, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26490 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N543US 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 N543US: Incident on August 18, 2019 at Ponta Delgada: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]
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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 · operated under 121
The government of Portugal has notified the NTSB of an accident involving a Boeing 757 airplane that occurred on August 18, 2019. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the government of Portugal's investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13.All investigative information will be released by the government of Portugal.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA19WA201 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