Boeing 737-8H4
N8686A is a Boeing 737-8H4, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2016. It has 143 seats. It is registered to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 28, 2016 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 2, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-8H4 · all 737-8H4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 36938
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl CFM56-7B27E/F · 27,300 lb thrust
- Seats
- 143
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- ABEFBA (octal 52767672)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 28, 2016
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · May 2, 2016
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01192427
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8686A, 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 June 28, 2016, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated May 2, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36938 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8686A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech A35 (serial D-2096, cancelled March 26, 2001). 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 N8686A: Accident on May 21, 2021 at Chicago, IL: no injuries, minor 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: Boeing 737-8H4 · operated under 121
the failure of the flight crew of N8686A to provide sufficient clearance while taxiing past N289CT, which was stopped.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA21LA133 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