Boeing 737-8
N8976K 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 October 16, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated October 10, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-8 · all 737-8s and related versions
- Serial number
- 42668
- 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
- AC6289 (octal 53061211)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 16, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 16, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · October 10, 2025
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01521264
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 N8976K, 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 October 16, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated October 10, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42668 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8976K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108-1 (serial 1081976, cancelled date not given). 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 N8976K: Accident on August 5, 1985 at Superior, MT: 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: Stinson 108-1 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN85LA209 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