Boeing 757-251
N553NW is a Boeing 757-251, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2001. 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 December 31, 2009 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 20, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 757-251 · all 757-251s and related versions
- Serial number
- 26500
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P & W PW2037 · 37,530 lb thrust
- Seats
- 178
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A70BD1 (octal 51605721)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 31, 2009
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · September 20, 2001
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00273944
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
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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 N553NW, 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 December 31, 2009, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated September 20, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26500 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N553NW 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 N553NW: Incident on October 10, 2011 at Atlanta, GA: no injuries, minor 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 return to service of overhauled airplane engine parts with undetected fatigue cracks, resulting in complete loss of engine power and uncontained engine failure. A contributing factor was the inadequate diffuser and HPT case inspection procedure.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ENG12IA001 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