Boeing 777-223
N779AN is a Boeing 777-223, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1999. It has 440 seats. It is registered to American Airlines INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 1999 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 27, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 777-223 · all 777-223s and related versions
- Serial number
- 29955
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc RB-211 SERIES · 22,000 lb thrust
- Seats
- 440
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- AA8A83 (octal 52505203)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 29, 1999
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · June 27, 1999
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00283816
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airlines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1 Skyview Dr
MD 8B369
Fort Worth, TX 76155
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 N779AN, 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 American Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 29, 1999, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated June 27, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 29955 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N779AN 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 N779AN: Accident on February 23, 2007 at Chicago, IL: serious injuries. Incident on April 25, 2000 at Chicago, IL: 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 777 · operated under 121
An in-flight encounter with turbulence during cruise flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI07LA078 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 777-223ER · operated under 121
the flightcrew not detecting the runway closure NOTAM and the Air Traffic Control personnel on the metering, ground, and local positions giving an improper clearance to taxi to a closed runway. Factors were the closed runway, ATIS information not issued by Air Traffic Control personnel, and insufficiently defined procedures of disseminating pertinent safety of flight information.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI00IA125 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