{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2017-02-28","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2019-04-24","city":"YPSILANTI","country_code":"US","county_code":"161","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"51665","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"P & W","engine_model":"PW4056","engine_thrust_lb":56750,"expiration_date":"2029-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"airliners","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-28","maker":"Boeing","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BOEING","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"13848BQ","mode_s_code":"52273071","mode_s_hex":"A97639","model":"747-4B5","n_number":"N709CK","name":"KALITTA AIR LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Lake Michigan","damage":"SUBS","date":"2004-10-21","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI05MA011","probable_cause":"The number one engine separated from the airplane during climb due to the uncontained separation of a portion of the second stage turbine disk rim after the second stage turbine vanes contacted the disk.  The second stage turbine vanes contacted the second stage turbine disk due to the operator's inadequate inspection of the high pressure turbine module and the improper repair of the module by unknown maintenance personnel.","registration":"N709CK","state":"","summary":"Accident on October 21, 2004 at Lake Michigan: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":4,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N709CK is a Boeing 747-4B5, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1993. It has 495 seats. It is registered to Kalitta Air LLC, an LLC in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 2019 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 28, 2017.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Kalitta Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 24, 2019, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 28, 2017, 24 years after the 1993 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26396 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N709CK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 747-132 (serial 20247, cancelled November 3, 2015). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N709CK: Accident on October 21, 2004 at Lake Michigan: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":495,"serial_number":"26396","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"818 WILLOW RUN AIRPORT","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"01141916","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N709CK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1993,"zip":"481980899"}