Boeing 737-209
N809TA is a Boeing 737-209, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1987. It has 149 seats. It is registered to Rhoades Aviation INC, a corporation in Honolulu, Hawaii. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2015 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 13, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-209 · all 737-209s and related versions
- Serial number
- 23796
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · P & W JT8D-15 · 15,500 lb thrust
- Seats
- 149
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- AB04F6 (octal 52602366)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 23, 2015
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · August 13, 2020
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01154719
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rhoades Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 29239
Honolulu, HI 96820-1639
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N809TA, 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 Rhoades Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 23, 2015, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 13, 2020, 33 years after the 1987 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23796 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N809TA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Convair 440 (serial 389, cancelled January 9, 1981). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N809TA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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