Boeing 737-8H4
N8316H is a Boeing 737-8H4, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2012. 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 2, 2012 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated July 23, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-8H4 · all 737-8H4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 36684
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl CFM56-7B27E · 27,300 lb thrust
- Seats
- 143
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- AB5F43 (octal 52657503)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 2, 2012
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · July 23, 2012
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01083181
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southwest Airlines CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2702 Love Field Dr # Hdq-4Gc
Dallas, TX 75235-1908
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N8316H, 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 Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation, certificate issued August 2, 2012, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated July 23, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36684 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8316H was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 2477, cancelled April 11, 1995); Emigh TROJAN A-2 (serial 19, cancelled May 5, 1954). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N8316H. 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