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N778SW

Boeing 737-7H4

Valid Texas

N778SW is a Boeing 737-7H4, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2000. It has 143 seats. It is registered to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 2000 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated August 2, 2000.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
737-7H4 · all 737-7H4s and related versions
Serial number
27883
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl. CFM56 SERIES · 2200 hp
Seats
143
Year built
2000
Transponder code
AA8864 (octal 52504144)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 29, 2000
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · August 2, 2000
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00286072

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Southwest Airlines CO
Type
Corporation
Address
2702 Love Field Dr # Hdq-4Gc
Dallas, TX 75235-1908

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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 N778SW, 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 Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation, certificate issued August 29, 2000, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated August 2, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27883 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N778SW 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 N778SW. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data