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N8515X

Boeing 737-800

Valid Texas

N8515X is a Boeing 737-800, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2016. It has 175 seats. It is registered to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 20, 2016.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
737-800 · all 737-800s and related versions
Serial number
36943
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl CFM56-7B27E/F · 27,300 lb thrust
Seats
175
Year built
2016
Transponder code
ABAE2C (octal 52727054)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 10, 2017
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 29, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · December 20, 2016
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01217239

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 3

2007-09-17Bell 412EP · exported to Colombia · Valid registration
2003-08-28Air Tractor Inc AT-502B · exported to Argentina · Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
1988-05-09Aeronca 7BCM · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8515X, 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 January 10, 2017, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated December 20, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36943 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8515X was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Bell 412EP (serial 36437, cancelled September 17, 2007); Air Tractor Inc AT-502B (serial 502B0672, cancelled August 28, 2003); Aeronca 7BCM (serial 7AC940, cancelled May 9, 1988). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N8515X. 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 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