Boeing 727-200
N720CK is a Boeing 727-200, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1977. It has 134 seats. It is registered to Kalitta Charters II LLC, an LLC in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 727-200 · all 727-200s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Boeing 727 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 21298
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 3 motors
- Seats
- 134
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 435 mph
- Transponder code
- A9A3C8 (octal 52321710)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 2009
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00813756
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kalitta Charters II LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- Attn: Douglas Kalitta
843 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.
Connections how N720CK links to the rest of the register
- Boeing 727 37 registered
- Boeing 6,677 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Kalitta Charters II LLC 21 aircraft in the fleet
- Ypsilanti, MI 138 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,225 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing 727 313 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing 727 61,008 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing 727 1,216 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Landing Gear, inoperative · 2019-01-28
- Report filed on this aircraft: Structure, corroded · 2018-10-10
- Report filed on this aircraft: Structure, corroded · 2018-10-09
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N720CK.json.
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The public federal record on N720CK, 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 Charters II LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 21, 2009, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21298 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N720CK 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]
1 NTSB record under N720CK: Accident on January 29, 2019 at Tuscaloosa, AL: 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 727 200 · operated under 121
the captain's decision to continue the landing with an unsafe gear indication.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data