Boeing 747SP-27
N747A is a Boeing 747SP-27, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. It has 192 seats. It is registered to Nasa-Armstrong Flight Research Center, a government body in Edwards, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 747SP-27 · all 747SP-27s and related versions
- Serial number
- 21992
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 4 motors
- Seats
- 192
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AA0C8B (octal 52406213)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 10, 2017
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00112645
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nasa-Armstrong Flight Research Center
- Type
- Government
- Address
- Attn: James E Coleman III
PO Box 1732 M/S 1732
Edwards, CA 93523-0273
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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 N747A, 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 Nasa-Armstrong Flight Research Center, a government body, certificate issued January 10, 2017, expires January 31, 2030. 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 21992 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N747A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-55 (serial 55910, cancelled January 16, 2004). 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 N747A: Accident on August 30, 2002 at Lytle Creek, CA: 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: Sikorsky S-55T · operated under 133
Failure of the hydraulic system due to contamination in the hydraulic fluid, which resulted in an in-flight loss of control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX02TA267 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