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N851NW

Airbus Industrie A330-223

Valid Georgia

N851NW is an Airbus Industrie A330-223, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 2004. It has 379 seats. It is registered to Delta Air Lines INC, a corporation in Atlanta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 31, 2009 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 18, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Airbus Industrie
Model
A330-223 · all A330-223s and related versions
Serial number
0609
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbojet, 2 motors · P&W PW4000 SER · 60,000 lb thrust
Seats
379
Year built
2004
Transponder code
ABAC50 (octal 52726120)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 31, 2009
Expires
May 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · August 18, 2004
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00121119

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Delta Air Lines INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1775 Mh Jackson Service Rd
Dept 595 Aircraft Registrations
Atlanta, GA 30354

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N851NW, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Delta Air Lines INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 31, 2009, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated August 18, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0609 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N851NW according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N851NW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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