Boeing 737-9
N738AL is a Boeing 737-9, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2025. It has 48 seats. It is registered to Alaska Airlines INC, a corporation in Seattle, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 14, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-9 · all 737-9s 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
- 68519
- 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 LEAP-1B28 SER · 29,317 lb thrust
- Seats
- 48
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A9E8CE (octal 52364316)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 20, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 20, 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 · May 14, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01462317
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alaska 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
- 19300 International Bvd
C/O Legal Department Seazl
Seattle, WA 98188
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 N738AL links to the rest of the register
- Boeing 737 2,894 registered
- Boeing 6,676 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- CFM International LEAP-1B28 series 696 aircraft with this engine series · 29,317 lb thrust
- Type certificate A16WE · held by The Boeing CO
- Alaska Airlines INC 236 aircraft in the fleet
- Seattle, WA 1,559 aircraft registered in this town
- Boeing Fld/King County International · BFI
- Seattle-Tacoma International · SEA
- Kenmore Air Seaplane Base · W55
- Seattle Seaplanes · 0W0
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing 737 855 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing 737 436,568 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing 737 2,230 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the CFM International LEAP-1B28 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the CFM International LEAP-1B28 series 342 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Hanger Assy, out of adjust · 2026-05-08
- Report filed on this aircraft: Apu, shutdown · 2007-01-27
- Report filed on this aircraft: Oil Cooler, unknown · 2007-01-27
- Where N738AL is now · Last seen today at 1:37 pm.
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The public federal record on N738AL, 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 Alaska Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 20, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated May 14, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 68519 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N738AL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 707-372C (serial 20076, cancelled May 29, 1973). 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 N738AL: Incident on March 18, 2026 at Newark, NJ: no 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 737-9 · operated under 121
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data