Boeing 747-4HQF
N782CK is a Boeing 747-4HQF, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2009. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Kalitta Air LLC, an LLC in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 29, 2011 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 6, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 747-4HQF · all 747-4HQFs and related versions
- Serial number
- 37304
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 4 motors · Ge CF6-80C2B5F · 60,030 lb thrust
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- AA9830 (octal 52514060)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 29, 2011
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · November 6, 2009
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01029751
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kalitta Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 818 Willow Run Airport
Ypsilanti, MI 48198-0899
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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 N782CK, 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 Kalitta Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 29, 2011, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated November 6, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 37304 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N782CK 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 N782CK: Accident on August 17, 2024 at Istanbul, OF: 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: Boeing 747-4HQF · operated under 121
The fatigue failure of multiple hinge ribs associated with the right outboard aileron, which resulted in abnormal aileron movement and airframe vibration. Contributing to the failure was the mis-rigged condition of the right outboard aileron, which increased operational loads on the hinge fittings during cruise flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA24LA293 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data