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N658NK, a Airbus A321-231
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N658NK

Airbus A321-231

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida

N658NK is an Airbus A321-231, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2015. It has 379 seats. It is registered to Spirit Airlines LLC, an LLC in Dania Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 12, 2015.

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Aircraft

Maker
Airbus
Model
A321-231 · all A321-231s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Aluminium fuselage and wings, composite tail. This is how the Airbus A321 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
6736
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 · Iae V2533-A5 · 31,600 lb thrust
Seats
379
Year built
2015
Transponder code
A8ABA8 (octal 52125650)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
May 3, 2025
Expires
May 31, 2032
Last FAA action
May 3, 2025
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 · August 12, 2015
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01186128

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Spirit Airlines LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
1731 Radiant Dr
Dania Beach, FL 33004-2437

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N658NK links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Dania Beach, FL 57 aircraft registered in this town
  • Florida 21,706 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N658NK.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N658NK, 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 Spirit Airlines LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 3, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated August 12, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6736 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N658NK 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 N658NK. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data