Airbus A321-231
N156AN is an Airbus A321-231, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2016. It has 379 seats. It is registered to American Airlines INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2016 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 26, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus
- Model
- A321-231 · all A321-231s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6983
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 2 motors · Iae V2533-A5 · 31,600 lb thrust
- Seats
- 379
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A0E086 (octal 50160206)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 25, 2016
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- October 15, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 26, 2016
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01209723
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airlines INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 1 Skyview Dr
MD 8B369
Fort Worth, TX 76155
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.
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The public federal record on N156AN, 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 American Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 25, 2016, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated February 26, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6983 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N156AN according to the deregistered file. [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 N156AN: Accident on July 5, 2021 at Miami, FL: serious injuries. 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: Airbus A321-231 · operated under 121
an inadvertent encounter with convective turbulence.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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