Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-87
N987GC is a Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-87, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1991. It has 172 seats. It is registered to Genesis Custom Jetliners LLC, an LLC in New York, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2008 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 16, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas
- Model
- DC-9-87 · all DC-9-87s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53040
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P & W JT8D-217C · 20,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 172
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- ADC5BE (octal 53342676)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 2008
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · January 16, 2023
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01003549
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Genesis Custom Jetliners LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 438 E 87Th St
New York, NY 10128-6502
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 N987GC, 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 Genesis Custom Jetliners LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 21, 2008, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 16, 2023, 32 years after the 1991 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 53040 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N987GC 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N987GC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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