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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Embraer
- Model
- EMB-145LR · all EMB-145LRs and related versions
- Serial number
- 145232
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc AE3007 SER · 6,442 lb thrust
- Seats
- 55
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A541EA (octal 51240752)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 18, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 18, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · January 21, 2004
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00081309
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Newcastle Aviation Partners LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA00LA004 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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