Boeing 737-800
N8524Z 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 March 8, 2017 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated February 22, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-800 · all 737-800s and related versions
- Serial number
- 36970
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl CFM56-7B27E/F · 27,300 lb thrust
- Seats
- 175
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- ABB1C2 (octal 52730702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 8, 2017
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · February 22, 2017
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01218988
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southwest Airlines CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2702 Love Field Dr Hdq-4Gc
Dallas, TX 75235
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8524Z, 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 March 8, 2017, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated February 22, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36970 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8524Z was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 407 (serial 53761, cancelled July 20, 2007); Hughes OH-6A (serial 65-12933, cancelled February 16, 2005). 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 N8524Z: Accident on October 7, 2003 at Eagle Pass, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: Hughes OH-6A · operated under PUBU
The failure of the aft segment of the tail rotor drive shaft for undertermined reasons. A contibuting factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the foced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW04TA012 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
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