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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 747-409 · all 747-409s and related versions
- Serial number
- 24310
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 4 motors · P & W PW4056 · 56,750 lb thrust
- Seats
- 490
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- AA90A0 (octal 52510240)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 5, 2005
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- February 3, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · June 2, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00150149
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Boeing Aircraft Holding CO
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
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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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA14IA016 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