Boeing 737-8
N9040W 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 Boeing CO, a corporation in Renton, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-8 · all 737-8s and related versions
- Serial number
- 70689
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors
- Seats
- 175
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC8075 (octal 53100165)
Registration
- Status
- Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- August 20, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01572544
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Boeing CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 737 Logan Ave N
Renton, WA 98057
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 3
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N9040W, 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 Boeing CO, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. 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 70689 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9040W was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Hamlin John D CH701 (serial 3978, cancelled September 8, 2017); Weatherly 201C (serial 1020, cancelled May 5, 1983); Piper PA-28-235 (serial 28-10632, cancelled July 29, 1965). 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 N9040W: Accident on July 16, 2011 at Paxton, IL: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: Hamlin John D CH701 · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to takeoff with a tailwind in high density altitude conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN11CA486 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