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N817AN

Boeing 787-8

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas

N817AN is a Boeing 787-8, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2017. It has 260 seats. It is registered to American Airlines INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 8, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 7, 2017.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
787-8 · all 787-8s and related versions
Serial number
40635
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 2 motors · Ge GENX-1B70/P2 · 72,300 lb thrust
Seats
260
Year built
2017
Transponder code
AB236A (octal 52621552)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
February 8, 2017
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
October 7, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 7, 2017
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01234541

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
American Airlines INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N817AN, 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 American Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 8, 2017, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated February 7, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 40635 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N817AN 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 N817AN. 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