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Embraer EMB-145LR
N438MA is an Embraer EMB-145LR, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. It has 55 seats. It is registered to Newcastle Aviation Partners LLC, an LLC in Fort Myers, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 18, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 21, 2004.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Embraer
- Model
- EMB-145LR · all EMB-145LRs 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 Embraer EMB-145 ERJ 145 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
- 145232
- 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-Royc AE3007 SER · 6,442 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 55
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A541EA (octal 51240752)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 18, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 18, 2024
- 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 · January 21, 2004
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00081309
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Newcastle Aviation Partners LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 16381 Domestic Ave Unit 100
Fort Myers, FL 33912-6009
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 N438MA links to the rest of the register
- Embraer EMB-145 ERJ 145 313 registered
- Embraer 663 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rolls-Royce AE3007 series 185 aircraft with this engine series · 6,442 lb thrust
- Newcastle Aviation Partners LLC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Fort Myers, FL 432 aircraft registered in this town
- Page Field · FMY
- Southwest Florida International · RSW
- Florida 21,696 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Embraer EMB-145 ERJ 145 128 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Embraer EMB-145 ERJ 145 52,535 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Embraer EMB-145 ERJ 145 87 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce AE3007 series 16 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Rolls-Royce AE3007 series 304 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Cowling, departed · 2011-01-06
- Report filed on this aircraft: Cowling, departed · 2011-01-06
- Report filed on this aircraft: Hydraulic Line, chafed · 2010-06-02
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The public federal record on N438MA, 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 Newcastle Aviation Partners LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 18, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 145232 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N438MA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild SA227-AC (serial AC-721B, cancelled October 22, 2012). 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 N438MA: Accident on October 12, 1999 at Opa Locka, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Fairchild SA227-AC · operated under 091
The improper flare by the co-pilot, and the failure of the captain to take remedial action by applying power to arrest the observed high rate of descent resulting in a hard landing. A finding in the accident was the inadequate maintenance adjustment of the right engine controls which diminished directional control capability while on the runway following the hard landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data