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Boeing 747-4J6
N747BC is a Boeing 747-4J6, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1992. It has 495 seats. It is registered to Boeing Aircraft Holding CO, a corporation in Seattle, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2001 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; operating kit-built aircraft, dated March 18, 2026.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 5:56 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 747-4J6 · all 747-4J6s 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 747 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
- 25879
- 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
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 4 motors · P & W PW4056 · 56,750 lb thrust
- Seats
- 495
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- AA0CA7 (octal 52406247)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 27, 2001
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- November 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and development; Operating kit-built aircraftFAA certificate purpose code 17 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 18, 2026
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00973817
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Boeing Aircraft Holding CO
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 3703 Mc 9U4-02
Attn: Contracts Adm
Seattle, WA 98124-2207
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 N747BC links to the rest of the register
- Boeing 747 192 registered
- Boeing 6,675 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney PW4056 25 aircraft with this engine series · 56,750 lb thrust
- Boeing Aircraft Holding CO 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Seattle, WA 1,552 aircraft registered in this town
- Boeing Fld/King County International · BFI
- Seattle-Tacoma International · SEA
- Kenmore Air Seaplane Base · W55
- Seattle Seaplanes · 0W0
- Washington 10,571 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing 747 866 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing 747 52,436 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing 747 1,448 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PW4056 39 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PW4056 12,594 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Indication Sys, faulted · 2026-03-28
- Report filed on this aircraft: Server, inoperative · 2026-02-21
- Report filed on this aircraft: Battery Pack, inoperative · 2025-05-10
- Where N747BC is now · Last seen Thursday at 5:56 am.
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The public federal record on N747BC, 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 Boeing Aircraft Holding CO, a corporation, certificate issued August 27, 2001, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 18, 2026, 34 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 25879 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N747BC 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N747BC. 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 October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data