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N553AS, a Boeing 737-890
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N553AS

Boeing 737-890

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesWashington

N553AS is a Boeing 737-890, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2006. It has 149 seats. It is registered to Alaska Airlines INC, a corporation in Seattle, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 30, 2006 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 30, 2006.

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Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
737-890 · all 737-890s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Boeing 737 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
34594
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cfm Intl. CFM56 SERIES · 2200 hp
Seats
149
Year built
2006
Transponder code
A70AA1 (octal 51605241)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
March 30, 2006
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 30, 2006
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00207709

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Alaska Airlines INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
C/O Legal Dept - Seazl
19300 International Blvd
Seattle, WA 98188

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N553AS links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Live

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N553AS, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Alaska Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 30, 2006, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated March 30, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 34594 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N553AS according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N553AS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data