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Boeing 737-800
N8520Q is a Boeing 737-800, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2017. It has 175 seats. It is registered to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 27, 2017.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 8:55 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-800 · all 737-800s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Boeing 737 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 42532
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cfm Intl CFM56-7B27E/F · 27,300 lb thrust
- Seats
- 175
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- ABB12D (octal 52730455)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 9, 2017
- Expires
- February 28, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 27, 2017
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01218982
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southwest Airlines CO
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N8520Q links to the rest of the register
- Boeing 737 2,891 registered
- Boeing 6,672 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- CFM International CFM56-7B27E/F 111 aircraft with this engine series · 27,300 lb thrust
- Type certificate A16WE · held by Boeing CO
- Southwest Airlines CO 738 aircraft in the fleet
- Dallas, TX 1,858 aircraft registered in this town
- Addison Airport · ADS
- Dallas Executive · RBD
- Dallas Love Field · DAL
- Mckinney Ntl Airport · TKI
- 3 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing 737 853 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing 737 436,304 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing 737 2,230 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the CFM International CFM56-7B27E/F 11 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Flashlight, failed · 2026-08-09
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bushing, corroded · 2026-07-11
- Report filed on this aircraft: Light, inoperative · 2026-06-24
- Where N8520Q is now · Last seen yesterday at 8:55 pm.
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The public federal record on N8520Q, 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 February 9, 2017, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated January 27, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42532 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8520Q was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-802 (serial 802-0183, cancelled September 18, 2009); Cessna U206F (serial U20603376, cancelled February 11, 1997). 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]
1 NTSB record under N8520Q: Accident on March 15, 2024 at Paris, TN: serious 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 737-800 · operated under 121
An encounter with convective turbulence.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data