N627AM
Registered owner: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC, WA (owner ≠ operator)
Operators of this aircraft
Who operated this tail, and how firmly we know it.
No operator established for this aircraft.
Accident & incident history
No NTSB accidents or incidents on file for this aircraft.
Maintenance disclosures
Service Difficulty Reports filed with the FAA for this airframe. Filing is largely voluntary — the number of reports is not a measure of reliability. To verify a report, search its control number at the FAA SDRS site.
2 reports on file, 2009-10-29 – 2010-10-25.
Part: FUEL SYS — CONTAMINATED · airframe 10,163 hrs
ACFT HAD UNDERGONE FUEL QTY INDICATOR CALIBRATION 2 DAYS PREVIOUSLY. PILOT ATTEMPTED TO START ENGINES, NEITHER ENGINE WOULD START. MX DETERMINED FUEL SYS HAD NOT BEEN PURGED OF AIR AFTER PREVIOUS WORK COMPLETED. FUEL LINES OF BOTH ENGINES WERE PURGED & BOTH ENGINES STARTED NORMALLY. ACFT POSITIONED FOR TAKEOFF & AFTER REACHING APPROX 5-10 KNOTS, NR 1 ENGINE FAILED WITHOUT ANY ADVANCED WARNING. PILOT ABLE TO GAIN AIRSPEED & RECOVER TO AIRPORT WHICH WAS A FIVE MINUTE FLT FROM TAKEOFF TO LANDING. NR 1 ENGINE AGAIN PURGED WITH A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF AIR STILL IN LINE. NR 1 ENGINE AGAIN STARTED BUT SIGNIFICANT FLUCTUATIONS IN TOT DURING START. AFTER RUNNING ENGINE FOR APPROX 10 MINS & HOVERING FOR SEVERAL MINS, ACFT REPOSITIONED BACK TO ORIGINAL AIRPORT. DURING SUBSEQUENT STARTS, WHILE ASSISTING MX TROUBLE SHOOTING, TOT CONTINUED TO FLUCTUATE ABNORMALLY DURING START. FUEL FILTER BOWL REMOVED, INSPECTED, REINSTALLED, & REBLED. SUBSEQUENT ENGINE STARTS NON-EVENTS.
Part: SEAL — MISSING (CLAM DOOR) · airframe 9,868 hrs · 17,159 cycles
FOLLOWING TAKEOFF, DURING CLIMB-OUT, AFTER PIC TURNED ON ECU, CABIN CREW REPORTED DETECTED FUEL FUMES. PIC TURNED OFF ECU, FUMES DID NOT CEASE. COCKPIT CREW NOTICED FUMES. PIC ABORTED MISSION, VENTILATED COCKPIT AND CABIN, AND RETURNED TO BASE WITHOUT INCIDENT. FUEL CAP WAS SECURE, NO LEAKS NOTICED. MX INSPECTED ACFT, FOUND NO LEAKS, BUT OBSERVED A SECTION OF SEAL MISSING FROM REAR DOORS, AFT OF FUEL STORAGE SYS VENT. MX REPLACED MISSING SEAL SECTION. MX RUN-UP AND THEN MX FLIGHT PERFORMED WITHOUT ODOR OF FUMES. ACFT RETURNED TO SERVICE.