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Boeing 727-230
N727YK is a Boeing 727-230, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines. It has 134 seats. It is registered to Fayaka Airways LLC, an LLC in San Francisco, California. The FAA lists the registration as "non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports" (certificate issued May 9, 2019). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 21, 2012.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 727-230 · all 727-230s 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
- 21442
- 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 · P & W JT8D-15 · 15,500 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 134
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A9BFBD (octal 52337675)
Registration
- Status
- Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reportsFAA registration status code N (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 9, 2019
- Expires
- May 31, 2022
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2021
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 21, 2012
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00493687
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fayaka Airways 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
- 3739 Balboa St # 1189
San Francisco, CA 94121-2605
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
Connections how N727YK 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
- Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15 6 aircraft with this engine series · 15,500 lb thrust
- Fayaka Airways LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- San Francisco, CA 295 aircraft registered in this town
- San Francisco International · SFO
- California 27,713 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
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15 35 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15 2,710 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Pin, installed · 2006-06-17
- Report filed on this aircraft: Downlock Arm, dirty · 2006-03-01
- Report filed on this aircraft: Indicator, failed · 2006-02-23
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N727YK.json.
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The public federal record on N727YK, 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.
Registration status is "Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for transport; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21442 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N727YK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 727-22C (serial 19806, cancelled August 5, 2009). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N727YK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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