Boeing 727-227
N438BN is a Boeing 727-227, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1975. It has 134 seats. It is registered to Antares Aviation LLC, an LLC in Boca Raton, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 12, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 727-227 · all 727-227s and related versions
- Serial number
- 21045
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbojet, 3 motors · P & W JT8D-1 · 14,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 134
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 435 mph
- Transponder code
- A540FC (octal 51240374)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 10, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · May 12, 1975
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00550246
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Antares Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 9858 Clint Moore Rd Ste C111
Boca Raton, FL 33496-1044
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N438BN, 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 Antares Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 10, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated May 12, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21045 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N438BN according to the deregistered file. [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 N438BN. 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