Boeing 747-4B5
N709CK is a Boeing 747-4B5, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1993. It has 495 seats. It is registered to Kalitta Air LLC, an LLC in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 2019 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 28, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 747-4B5 · all 747-4B5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 26396
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 4 motors · P & W PW4056 · 56,750 lb thrust
- Seats
- 495
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- A97639 (octal 52273071)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 24, 2019
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · February 28, 2017
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01141916
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 N709CK, 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 April 24, 2019, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 28, 2017, 24 years after the 1993 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 26396 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N709CK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 747-132 (serial 20247, cancelled November 3, 2015). 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]
1 NTSB record under N709CK: Accident on October 21, 2004 at Lake Michigan: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 747-132 · operated under 121
The number one engine separated from the airplane during climb due to the uncontained separation of a portion of the second stage turbine disk rim after the second stage turbine vanes contacted the disk. The second stage turbine vanes contacted the second stage turbine disk due to the operator's inadequate inspection of the high pressure turbine module and the improper repair of the module by unknown maintenance personnel.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI05MA011 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