Boeing 737-824
N12238 is a Boeing 737-824, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1999. It has 149 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 7, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-824 · all 737-824s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28804
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl. CFM56 SERIES · 2200 hp
- Seats
- 149
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A05E02 (octal 50057002)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 22, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · October 7, 1999
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00835752
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United Airlines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 233 S Wacker Dr
Chicago, IL 60606-7147
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N12238, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to United Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 22, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated October 7, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28804 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12238 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17261899, cancelled October 20, 1975); General Western Aero Corp Ltd P-2-S (serial 105, cancelled September 16, 1940). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N12238. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data