Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-87
N987AK is a Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-87, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. It has 172 seats. It is registered to 987 Investments LLC, an LLC in Spring, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2015 and expires on December 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas
- Model
- DC-9-87 · all DC-9-87s and related versions
- Serial number
- 49404
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors
- Seats
- 172
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ADC52F (octal 53342457)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 5, 2015
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00443725
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- 987 Investments LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 6046 Fm 2920 Rd # 512
Spring, TX 77379-2542
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 N987AK, 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 987 Investments LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 5, 2015, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 49404 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N987AK 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 N987AK: Accident on October 19, 2021 at Brookshire, TX: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-87 (MD-87) · operated under 091
The jammed condition of both elevators, which resulted from exposure to localized, dynamic high wind while the airplane was parked and prevented the airplane from rotating during the takeoff roll. Also causal was the failure of Everts Air Cargo, the pilots’ primary employer, to maintain awareness of Boeing-issued, required updates for its manuals, which resulted in the pilots not receiving the procedures and training that addressed the requirement to visually verify during the preflight checks that the elevators are not jammed.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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