Boeing 737-890
N516AS is a Boeing 737-890, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2008. It has 149 seats. It is registered to Wilmington Trust CO Trustee, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2022 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 16, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-890 · all 737-890s and related versions
- Serial number
- 39044
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl CFM56-7B27 · 27,300 lb thrust
- Seats
- 149
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A677CA (octal 51473712)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 14, 2022
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · December 16, 2008
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00468729
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilmington Trust CO Trustee
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1100 N Market St
Wilmington, DE 19890-1100
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 N516AS, 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 Wilmington Trust CO Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued February 14, 2022, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated December 16, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 39044 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N516AS 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]
2 NTSB records under N516AS: Accident on August 21, 2023 at Santa Ana, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Incident on December 24, 2008 at Seattle, WA: no 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 737-890 · operated under 121
Maintenance personnel’s excessive grinding of the left main landing gear’s aft trunnion pin during machining, which imparted heat damage to the base metal and led to the fatigue cracking that caused the pin to fracture during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA23FA417 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 737-890 · operated under 121
The failure of the deicing crew to follow company procedures by not receiving confirmation from the flight crew before beginning to deice the airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR09IA065 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data