Boeing 737-800
N8559Q is a Boeing 737-800, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2018. It has 175 seats. It is registered to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 2022 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 10, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-800 · all 737-800s and related versions
- Serial number
- 63584
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl CFM56-7B27E/F · 27,300 lb thrust
- Seats
- 175
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- ABBD8D (octal 52736615)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 19, 2022
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · January 10, 2018
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01269331
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southwest Airlines CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2702 Love Field Dr Hdq-4Gc
Dallas, TX 75235
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8559Q, 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 May 19, 2022, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated January 10, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 63584 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8559Q was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna U206F (serial U20603415, cancelled July 23, 1990). 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 N8559Q: Accident on August 29, 1989 at West Point, NY: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Cessna U206F · operated under 091
CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT BY THE PILOT INTO AN AREA OF MARGINAL VISUAL METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS, AND HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN SUFFICIENT ALTITUDE OVER MOUNTAINOUS/HILLY TERRAIN. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: DARK NIGHT, HIGH TERRAIN, LOW CLOUDS/CEILING, RAIN, AND TREES.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC89FA204 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