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Boeing 747-409
N780BA is a Boeing 747-409, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1990. It has 490 seats. It is registered to Boeing Aircraft Holding CO, a corporation in Renton, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 5, 2005 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 2, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 747-409 · all 747-409s 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
- 24310
- 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
- 490
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- AA90A0 (octal 52510240)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 5, 2005
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- February 3, 2024
- 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 · June 2, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00150149
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
- 737 Logan Ave N
Renton, WA 98057-5535
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 N780BA links to the rest of the register
- Boeing 747 192 registered
- Boeing 6,672 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
- Renton, WA 325 aircraft registered in this town
- Renton Municipal · RNT
- Will Rogers Wiley Post Memorial Seaplane Base · W36
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing 747 866 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing 747 52,423 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: Structure, no discrepancy · 2025-12-13
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skin, corroded · 2024-12-02
- Report filed on this aircraft: Trunnion, corroded · 2024-12-02
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N780BA.json.
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The public federal record on N780BA, 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 January 5, 2005, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 2, 2007, 17 years after the 1990 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 24310 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N780BA 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 N780BA: Incident on November 22, 2013 at Wichita, KS: no injuries. 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 - 409LCF · operated under 121
the flight crew's failure to properly identify the airport and runway of intended landing. Contributing to the incident was the flight crew's failure to follow company procedures for crosschecking navigational information and visual cues to verify the airport and runway of intended landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data