diff --git a/src/v0/destinations/airship/transform.js b/src/v0/destinations/airship/transform.js
index d60439f45e..dc8543fbc5 100644
--- a/src/v0/destinations/airship/transform.js
+++ b/src/v0/destinations/airship/transform.js
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-const { v5 } = require('uuid');
 const { InstrumentationError, ConfigurationError } = require('@rudderstack/integrations-lib');
 const { EventType } = require('../../../constants');
 
@@ -25,6 +24,7 @@ const {
   simpleProcessRouterDest,
 } = require('../../util');
 const { JSON_MIME_TYPE } = require('../../util/constant');
+const { transformSessionId } = require('./utils');
 
 const DEFAULT_ACCEPT_HEADER = 'application/vnd.urbanairship+json; version=3';
 
@@ -121,12 +121,6 @@ const identifyResponseBuilder = (message, { Config }) => {
   return arrayPayload;
 };
 
-const transformSessionId = (rawSessionId) => {
-  const NAMESPACE = v5.DNS;
-  const uuidV5 = v5(rawSessionId, NAMESPACE);
-  return uuidV5;
-};
-
 const trackResponseBuilder = async (message, { Config }) => {
   let name = message.event;
   if (!name) {
diff --git a/src/v0/destinations/airship/utils.js b/src/v0/destinations/airship/utils.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0ef637245f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/v0/destinations/airship/utils.js
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+const { v5 } = require('uuid');
+
+// ref : https://docs.airship.com/api/ua/#operation-api-custom-events-post
+const transformSessionId = (rawSessionId) => {
+  const NAMESPACE = v5.DNS;
+  const uuidV5 = v5(rawSessionId, NAMESPACE);
+  return uuidV5;
+};
+
+module.exports = {
+  transformSessionId,
+};
diff --git a/test/integrations/destinations/airship/processor/data.ts b/test/integrations/destinations/airship/processor/data.ts
index 74b1c2a628..a72495d23d 100644
--- a/test/integrations/destinations/airship/processor/data.ts
+++ b/test/integrations/destinations/airship/processor/data.ts
@@ -2296,7 +2296,7 @@ export const data = [
   },
   {
     name: 'airship',
-    description: 'Test 22',
+    description: 'Test 22 : session id gets converted to v5 uuid format',
     feature: 'processor',
     module: 'destination',
     version: 'v0',