Boeing 737-8
N8956Q is a Boeing 737-8, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2025. It has 175 seats. It is registered to Southwest Airlines CO, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 5, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-8 · all 737-8s and related versions
- Serial number
- 68894
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl LEAP-1B28 SER · 29,317 lb thrust
- Seats
- 175
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- AC5B20 (octal 53055440)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 9, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · June 5, 2025
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01496186
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 N8956Q, 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 9, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated June 5, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 68894 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8956Q was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 180A (serial 32776, cancelled May 10, 2010); North American Rockwell S-2R (serial 1626R, cancelled March 21, 1973). 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 N8956Q: Accident on April 14, 2004 at Las Vegas, NM: no 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: Cessna 180A · operated under 091
the pilot's decision to takeoff in wind conditions that consisted of a quarterly tailwind and a crosswind in excess of the maximum demonstrated crosswind component, and his failure to maintain directional control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN04CA062 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