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Airbus Sas A330-941
N438DX is an Airbus Sas A330-941, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2025. It has 440 seats. It is registered to Delta Air Lines INC, a corporation in Atlanta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 1, 2025.
Where is it now Last seen Wednesday at 8:54 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Sas
- Model
- A330-941 · all A330-941s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Aluminium fuselage and wings, composite tail. This is how the Airbus A330 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
- 2101
- 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 · Rolls-Roy TRENT 7000-72 · 72,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 440
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A54137 (octal 51240467)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 2, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 2, 2025
- 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 · August 1, 2025
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01515551
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Delta Air Lines 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
- Dept 595 Aircraft Registrations
1775 Mh Jackson Service Rd
Atlanta, GA 30354
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.
Connections how N438DX links to the rest of the register
- Airbus A330 155 registered
- Airbus Sas 178 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rolls-Roy TRENT 7000-72 37 aircraft with this engine series · 72,000 lb thrust
- Type certificate A46NM · held by Airbus Sas
- Delta Air Lines INC 1,123 aircraft in the fleet
- Atlanta, GA 1,587 aircraft registered in this town
- Cobb County Intl/Mccollum Field · RYY
- Dekalb-Peachtree Airport · PDK
- Fulton County Exec/Charlie Brown Field · FTY
- Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International · ATL
- 5 more landing places in town
- Georgia 8,790 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus A330 495 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Airbus A330 20,939 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Airbus A330 234 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Roy TRENT 7000-72 8 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Rolls-Roy TRENT 7000-72 17 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Light, faulted · 2026-07-15
- Report filed on this aircraft: Door, unsecure · 2025-08-10
- Where N438DX is now · Last seen Wednesday at 8:54 pm.
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The public federal record on N438DX, 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 Delta Air Lines INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 2, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated August 1, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2101 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N438DX 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 N438DX. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data