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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-290C · all 737-290Cs 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
- 22578
- 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 · P & W JT8D-17 SER · 16,000 lb thrust
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 134
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A9F29B (octal 52371233)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 9, 2012
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- 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 · June 2, 1981
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00083277
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alaska Aviation Museum
- 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
- 4721 Aircraft Dr
Anchorage, AK 99502-1080
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N740AS links to the rest of the register
- Boeing 737 2,896 registered
- Boeing 6,677 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17 series 7 aircraft with this engine series · 16,000 lb thrust
- Alaska Aviation Museum 20 aircraft in the fleet
- Anchorage, AK 2,528 aircraft registered in this town
- Lake Hood Airport · LHD
- Merrill Field · MRI
- Ted Stevens Anchorage International · ANC
- Bold Airport · A13
- 2 more landing places in town
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing 737 855 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing 737 437,335 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing 737 2,230 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Battery, discharged · 2006-10-21
- Report filed on this aircraft: Battery Pack, discharged · 2006-09-27
- Report filed on this aircraft: Battery Pack, discharged · 2006-09-12
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N740AS.json.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data