Boeing 747-4B5F
N706CK is a Boeing 747-4B5F, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2001. It has 490 seats. It is registered to Kalitta Air LLC, an LLC in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 18, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 747-4B5F · all 747-4B5Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 27073
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 4 motors · P & W PW4056 · 56,750 lb thrust
- Seats
- 490
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A96B14 (octal 52265424)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 2, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 2, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · October 18, 2017
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01231904
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kalitta Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 818 Willow Run Airport
Ypsilanti, MI 48198-0899
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N706CK, 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 Kalitta Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 2, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 18, 2017, 16 years after the 2001 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27073 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N706CK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 747-249F (serial 21827, cancelled February 7, 2014). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N706CK: Accident on June 3, 1995 at Panama City: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 29, 1995 at Belleville, MI: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing B-747-238 · operated under 121
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA95WA143 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 747-238B · operated under 091
the failure of company maintenance personnel to adequately secure the cargo pallets, and the failure of the flightcrew to detect the deficiency during their preflight inspection.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI95LA078 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
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