Boeing 737-9
N17438 is a Boeing 737-9, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2026. It has 48 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 21, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-9 · all 737-9s and related versions
- Serial number
- 67668
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl LEAP-1B28 SER · 29,317 lb thrust
- Seats
- 48
- Year built
- 2026
- Transponder code
- A12AEB (octal 50225353)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 2, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 2, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · February 21, 2026
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01528755
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N17438, 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 March 2, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated February 21, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 67668 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17438 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca C-3 (serial A-747, cancelled April 11, 2013). 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]
1 NTSB record under N17438: Accident on March 3, 2002 at Sonoma, CA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aeronca C-3 · operated under 091
the pilot's excessive remedial control inputs in response to a passenger's control inputs, which led to a failure to maintain an adequate airspeed and an inadvertent stall/mush. The pilot's inadequate preflight decision to allow a student pilot to occupy the only seat with full flight controls was a factor in the accident.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX02LA100 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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