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N8946L

Boeing 737-8

Valid Texas

N8946L is a Boeing 737-8, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2025. It has 175 seats. It is registered to Southwest Airlines INC, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 25, 2025.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
737-8
Serial number
42599
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl LEAP-1B28 SER · 29,317 lb thrust
Seats
175
Year built
2025
Transponder code
AC5765 (octal 53053545)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 1, 2025
Expires
April 30, 2032
Last FAA action
April 1, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · March 25, 2025
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01462324

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Southwest Airlines INC
Type
Corporation
Address
2702 Love Field Dr Hdq-4Gc
Dallas, TX 75235

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

1990-03-26Piper PA-25-235 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

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