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N20NS

Ilyushin IL 78

N20NS is an Ilyushin IL 78, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines. It has 100 seats. It is registered to Meridican INC, a corporation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Ilyushin
Model
IL 78
Serial number
0083485558
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbojet, 4 motors
Seats
100
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A190E7 (octal 50310347)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 1, 2019
Expires
May 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 4, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00225079

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Meridican INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1600 Market St Ste 1320
Philadelphia, PA 19103-7245

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.

Earlier use of this number 2

2011-03-02Hawker Beechcraft Corp C90GTI · exported to Brazil · Valid registration
2004-09-22Sundstrom Norman W THUNDER HAWK I · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data