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N697DL

Boeing 757-232

Valid Georgia

N697DL is a Boeing 757-232, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1999. 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 August 3, 1999 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 1, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
757-232 · all 757-232s and related versions
Serial number
30318
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · P & W PW2037 · 37,530 lb thrust
Seats
178
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A9450D (octal 52242415)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 3, 1999
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · August 1, 1999
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00613666

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N697DL, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Delta Air Lines INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 3, 1999, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated August 1, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30318 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N697DL according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N697DL: Accident on February 26, 2006 at Boston, MA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

NYC06LA074Accident on February 26, 2006 at Boston, MA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 757-232 · operated under 121

The deice vehicle driver's failure to maintain clearance from a standing airplane, which resulted in a collision between the deice vehicle and left elevator of the airplane.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC06LA074 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data