Boeing 737-824
N38257 is a Boeing 737-824, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2000. It has 149 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 11, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 14, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-824 · all 737-824s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30612
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl. CFM56 SERIES · 2200 hp
- Seats
- 149
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A465DF (octal 51062737)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 11, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · November 14, 2000
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00355870
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 N38257, 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 May 11, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated November 14, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30612 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N38257 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper J3F-50 (serial 6883, cancelled February 5, 1947); Piper PA-28R-201T (serial 28R7703194, cancelled date not given). 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 N38257. 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 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