Boeing 747-451
N661US is a Boeing 747-451, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1989. It has 450 seats. It is registered to Delta Air Lines INC, a corporation in Atlanta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 22, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 8, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 747-451 · all 747-451s and related versions
- Serial number
- 23719
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 4 motors · P&W PW4000 SER · 60,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 450
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- A8B9C3 (octal 52134703)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 22, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 22, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · December 8, 1989
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00654021
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Delta Air Lines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Dept 595 Aircraft Registrations
1775 Mh Jackson Service Rd
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 N661US, 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 22, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated December 8, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23719 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N661US 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]
2 NTSB records under N661US: Incident on October 23, 2011 at Detroit, MI: no injuries, minor damage. Incident on October 10, 2002 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 747-451 · operated under 121
The penetration of turbine blade fragments through the rear turbine case, which punctured the No. 4 bearing oil pressure supply tube, allowing misted oil to contact the hot engine case and ignite the undercowl fire. Contributing to the incident was the installation of approved (but not preferred) stage 3 low pressure turbine outer transition duct segments with the riveted rear seal configuration and the failure of the engine design to comply with the engine debris containment requirements of 14 Code of Federal Regulations 33.13 and 33.75.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ENG12IA003 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 747-400 · operated under 121
The fatigue fracture of the lower rudder power control module manifold, which resulted in a lower rudder hardover.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC03IA001 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