Boeing 737-8
N9038W is a Boeing 737-8, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. It has 175 seats. It is registered to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Where is it now Last seen October 13 at 12:58 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-8 · all 737-8s 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
- 67337
- 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
- Seats
- 175
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC7DD6 (octal 53076726)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 22, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 22, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01572540
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southwest Airlines CO
- 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
- 2702 Love Field Dr # Hdq-4Gc
Dallas, TX 75235-1908
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 1
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N9038W links to the rest of the register
- Boeing 737 2,892 registered
- Boeing 6,674 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate A16WE · held by The Boeing CO
- Southwest Airlines CO 738 aircraft in the fleet
- Dallas, TX 1,858 aircraft registered in this town
- Addison Airport · ADS
- Dallas Executive · RBD
- Dallas Love Field · DAL
- Mckinney Ntl Airport · TKI
- 3 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,901 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing 737 853 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing 737 436,304 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing 737 2,230 supplemental type certificates
- Where N9038W is now · Last seen October 13 at 12:58 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N9038W.json.
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The public federal record on N9038W, 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 Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation, certificate issued October 22, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 67337 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9038W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Weatherly 201C (serial 1019, cancelled May 17, 2013); Piper PA-28-235 (serial 28-10614, cancelled August 9, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 21, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N9038W: Accident on May 30, 1995 at Clarks, NE: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Weatherly 201C · operated under 137
a partial failure of the engine supercharger.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 22, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 22, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 22, 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 22, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data