Airbus A321-231
N686NK is an Airbus A321-231, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2018. 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 March 22, 2018 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated March 22, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus
- Model
- A321-231 · all A321-231s and related versions
- Serial number
- 8141
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Iae V2533-A5 · 31,600 lb thrust
- Seats
- 379
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A91AB7 (octal 52215267)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 22, 2018
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 10, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · March 22, 2018
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01272857
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spirit Airlines LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1731 Radiant Dr
Dania Beach, FL 33004-2437
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N686NK, 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 Spirit Airlines LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 22, 2018, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated March 22, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8141 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N686NK 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N686NK. 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 August 27, 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