Airbus Industrie A321-211
N178US is an Airbus Industrie A321-211, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2001. It has 199 seats. It is registered to American Airlines INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 30, 2015 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated July 12, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Industrie
- Model
- A321-211 · all A321-211s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1519
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl. CFM56 SERIES · 2200 hp
- Seats
- 199
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A138B8 (octal 50234270)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 30, 2015
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · July 12, 2001
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00883944
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airlines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N178US, 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 December 30, 2015, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated July 12, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1519 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N178US was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: British Aerospace BAE 146 SERIES 200A (serial E2040, cancelled March 28, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N178US. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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