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N8896L

Boeing 737-8

Valid Texas

N8896L is a Boeing 737-8, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2023. It has 175 seats. It is registered to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 22, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 9, 2023.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
737-8
Serial number
68048
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl LEAP-1B28 SER · 29,317 lb thrust
Seats
175
Year built
2023
Transponder code
AC4279 (octal 53041171)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 22, 2023
Expires
November 30, 2030
Last FAA action
November 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · November 9, 2023
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01390002

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Southwest Airlines CO
Type
Corporation
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 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1976-05-28Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-1B · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data