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Boeing 737-824
N39297 is a Boeing 737-824, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2005. It has 149 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 15, 2005.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-824 · all 737-824s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Boeing 737 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 34003
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cfm Intl. CFM56 SERIES · 2200 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 149
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A48DEA (octal 51106752)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 4, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 4, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 15, 2005
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00183939
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United Airlines INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N39297 links to the rest of the register
- Boeing 737 2,896 registered
- Boeing 6,677 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- CFM International CFM56 series 708 aircraft with this engine series · 2200 hp
- United Airlines INC 1,222 aircraft in the fleet
- Chicago, IL 1,567 aircraft registered in this town
- Chicago Midway International · MDW
- Chicago O'Hare International · ORD
- Lansing Municipal · IGQ
- Illinois 8,072 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing 737 855 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing 737 437,335 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing 737 2,230 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the CFM International CFM56 series 56 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the CFM International CFM56 series 2,455 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fseu, faulted · 2026-09-15
- Report filed on this aircraft: Wire Harness, damaged · 2026-08-26
- Report filed on this aircraft: Floorbeam, corroded · 2026-08-04
- Where N39297 is now · Last seen yesterday at 5:52 pm.
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The public federal record on N39297, 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 June 4, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated October 15, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 34003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N39297 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft BC12-D (serial 6550, cancelled November 15, 1972). 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 N39297: Incident on September 12, 2025 at Osaka: minor injuries. 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: Boeing 737-824 · operated under 121
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data