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N38458

Boeing 737-924ER

Valid Illinois

N38458 is a Boeing 737-924ER, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2012. It has 191 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 27, 2012 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 21, 2012.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
737-924ER · all 737-924ERs and related versions
Serial number
37199
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl CFM56-7B26E · 26,300 lb thrust
Seats
191
Year built
2012
Transponder code
A46D4E (octal 51066516)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 27, 2012
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · September 21, 2012
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01104702

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United Airlines INC
Type
Corporation
Address
Attn: Treasurer Willis Tower
233 South Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1988-06-15Piper PA-28-161 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N38458, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to United Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 27, 2012, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated September 21, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 37199 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N38458 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 287716256, cancelled June 15, 1988). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N38458: Accident on May 17, 1987 at Turlock, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX87LA208Accident on May 17, 1987 at Turlock, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 28-7716256

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-161 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX87LA208 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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