Boeing 737-290C
N740AS is a Boeing 737-290C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1981. It has 134 seats. It is registered to Alaska Aviation Museum, a corporation in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 9, 2012 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 2, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-290C · all 737-290Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 22578
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P & W JT8D-17 SER · 16,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 134
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A9F29B (octal 52371233)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 9, 2012
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · June 2, 1981
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00083277
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alaska Aviation Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4721 Aircraft Dr
Anchorage, AK 99502-1080
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.
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The public federal record on N740AS, 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 Aviation Museum, a corporation, certificate issued July 9, 2012, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated June 2, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22578 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N740AS 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]
1 NTSB record under N740AS: Incident on October 30, 2006 at Seattle, WA: 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 737-200 · operated under 121
the flight crew's failure to cross-check and verify that the airplane was on the correct runway before takeoff. Contributing to the incident was the flight crew's self-induced pressure to heed the takeoff clearance during a period of increased workload.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA07IA008 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