{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2009-07-21","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2009-07-22","city":"CHICAGO","country_code":"US","county_code":"031","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"13073","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"CFM INTL","engine_model":"CFM56-7B26/3","engine_thrust_lb":25900,"expiration_date":"2027-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"airliners","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-11-12","maker":"Boeing","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BOEING","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"13848A3","mode_s_code":"52521104","mode_s_hex":"AAA244","model":"737-924ER","n_number":"N78438","name":"UNITED AIRLINES INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"ATTN TREASURER","plain_english":"N78438 is a Boeing 737-924ER, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2009. It has 191 seats. It is registered to United Airlines INC, a corporation in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated July 21, 2009.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to United Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 22, 2009, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated July 21, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 33533 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N78438 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65S (serial 23179, cancelled February 8, 2005). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N78438. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":191,"serial_number":"33533","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"ATTN:TREASURER WILLIS TOWER","street2":"233 S WACKER DR","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turbofan","type_engine_code":"5","unique_id":"01035295","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N78438","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2009,"zip":"606067147"}