DELTA AIR LINES INC· ICAO24 ac78b0· last seen Oct 2025

N902XJ is a canadair CRJ-900, a twin-engine jet operated by DELTA AIR LINES INC. SkyMeter has tracked 1,174 flights totalling 1,883 hours of airtime via ADS-B across 150 callsigns. The most frequent segment is KRDU to KLGA. Service window in our records spans 127 days. Of those flights, 78 (6.6%) carry at least one detected incident: a go-around, unstable approach, stall warning, or runway excursion. The canadair CRJ-900 has a 82 ft wingspan, a maximum takeoff weight of 80,500 lb.

About the canadair CRJ-900

The Bombardier CRJ900 is the stretched flagship of the CRJ family, seating 76 to 90 passengers in a twin-engine regional jet configuration that redefined scope-clause economics for North American carriers. Launched in 2001 as an answer to Embraer's E-Jet challenge, the CRJ900 extends the fuselage of the smaller CRJ700 by nearly 14 feet while retaining the same wing and General Electric CF34-8C5 engines, creating a high-density regional workhorse that operates profitably on 300- to 1,500-mile routes. Its 1,553-nautical-mile range and 41,000-foot service ceiling allow it to overfly weather and serve thin markets that can't fill mainline narrowbodies, making it the backbone of Delta Connection, SkyWest, and Endeavor Air fleets.

The type's long, slender fuselage and distinctive T-tail give it excellent high-speed cruise performance (Mach 0.85 maximum operating speed matches many narrowbodies), though the single-aisle 2-2 seating and stand-up cabin height of just 6 feet 1 inch remind passengers this is purpose-built regional iron, not a scaled-down mainline jet. Despite competition from the Embraer E175 and later E190-E2, the CRJ900 remains in production and continues to dominate the 76-seat scope-limited segment in the United States, where pilot contracts cap regional jet size. SkyMeter has tracked flights across airframes and operators, with the largest observed operator.

FLIGHTS
1,174
all time
FLOWN HOURS
1,883
tracked time
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AIRPORTS VISITED
60
unique
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CALLSIGNS
150
130 routes
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SERVICE PERIOD
05/27/2025 → 10/01/2025
first → last
INCIDENT RATE
6.6%
78 flagged

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Aircraft specifications

canadair CRJ-900

Engines
Twin Jet
Vref (approach)
141 kt
Vmo
335 kt
MTOW
80,500 lb
Wingspan
82 ft
Length
119 ft
Wake category
Medium

Recent flights

Newest 50 operations of N902XJ

50
09/30/2025
1h 30m
△ Unstable approach
09/27/2025
54m
△ Unstable approach
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