Embraer ERJ 170-100 LR
N879RW is an Embraer ERJ 170-100 LR, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2008. It has 70 seats. It is registered to Delta Air Lines INC, a corporation in Atlanta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 15, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Embraer
- Model
- ERJ 170-100 LR · all ERJ 170-100 LRs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17000227
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Ge CF34-8E5 · 14,510 lb thrust
- Seats
- 70
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- AC1951 (octal 53014521)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 13, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · September 15, 2011
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01078737
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Delta Air Lines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Dept 595 Aircraft Registrations
1775 Mh Jackson Service Rd
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.
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The public federal record on N879RW, 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 Delta Air Lines INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 13, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 15, 2011, 3 years after the 2008 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 17000227 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N879RW 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 N879RW: Incident on May 1, 2025 at Washington, DC. 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: Embraer ERJ 170-100 LR · operated under 121
On May 1, 2025, about 1433 eastern daylight time (EDT), Priority Air Transport flight 23 (PAT23), (tail number forthcoming), a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter landing at the Pentagon Heliport (JPN), and Republic Airways flight 5825 (RPA5825), an Embraer 170, N879RW, on approach for landing Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), Arlington, Virginia, were involved in a loss of separation approximately 1.7 miles north-northwest of DCA. PAT23 was operating as a title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 military flight, and RPA5825 was operating as a title 14 CFR Part 121 scheduled pa…
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- 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