Boeing 717-200
N978AT is a Boeing 717-200, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2002. It has 100 seats. It is registered to Delta Air Lines INC, a corporation in Atlanta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 28, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 717-200 · all 717-200s and related versions
- Serial number
- 55037
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc BR 700 SERIES · 14,750 lb thrust
- Seats
- 100
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- ADA16F (octal 53320557)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 6, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 6, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · June 28, 2002
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00454147
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Delta Air Lines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1775 M H Jackson Service Rd
Dept 595
Atlanta, GA 30354-3743
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 N978AT, 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 February 6, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated June 28, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 55037 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N978AT 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 N978AT: Incident on March 5, 2004 at Atlanta, GA: 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 717-200 · operated under 121
The failure of the tantalum capacitor and the permanent magnet generator input transformer which resulted in total electrical system failure.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL04IA085 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