{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2017-01-10","city":"EDWARDS","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"airliners","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-30","maker":"Boeing","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BOEING","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1384810","mode_s_code":"52406213","mode_s_hex":"AA0C8B","model":"747SP-27","n_number":"N747A","name":"NASA-ARMSTRONG FLIGHT RESEARCH CENTER","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"LYTLE CREEK","damage":"SUBS","date":"2002-08-30","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX02TA267","probable_cause":"Failure of the hydraulic system due to contamination in the hydraulic fluid, which resulted in an in-flight loss of control.","registration":"N747A","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on August 30, 2002 at Lytle Creek, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":4,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N747A is a Boeing 747SP-27, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. It has 192 seats. It is registered to Nasa-Armstrong Flight Research Center, a government body in Edwards, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Nasa-Armstrong Flight Research Center, a government body, certificate issued January 10, 2017, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21992 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N747A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-55 (serial 55910, cancelled January 16, 2004). 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 N747A: Accident on August 30, 2002 at Lytle Creek, CA: 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":192,"serial_number":"21992","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"ATTN: JAMES E COLEMAN III","street2":"PO BOX 1732 M/S 1732","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"00112645","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N747A","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"935230273"}