Boeing 747-4B5
N707CK is a Boeing 747-4B5, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1992. It has 495 seats. It is registered to Kalitta Air LLC, an LLC in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 5, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 9, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 747-4B5 · all 747-4B5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 26395
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 4 motors · P & W PW4056 · 56,750 lb thrust
- Seats
- 495
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A96ECB (octal 52267313)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 5, 2018
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · May 9, 2014
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01148620
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 N707CK, 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 September 5, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 9, 2014, 22 years after the 1992 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 26395 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N707CK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 747-246F (serial 21681, cancelled December 11, 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 N707CK: Accident on July 29, 1999 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Incident on March 22, 1997 at Manaus: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 747-269B · operated under 121
The failure of a turbine blade, and subsequent penetration of the shroud (containment ring). A factor associated with the accident was the FAA's insufficient design standards/requirements addressed in an FAA Air Worthiness Directive, which called for a strengthened containment ring. The failed containment ring was in compliance with the Air Worthiness Directive.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC99LA099 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 747-269B · operated under 121
the pilot-in-command's (non-flying pilot) improper flare. Related factors were inadequate crew/coordination, haze and sunglare.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI97IA096 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