Airbus A321-231
N921US is an Airbus A321-231, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2015. It has 379 seats. It is registered to American Airlines INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 30, 2015 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 18, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus
- Model
- A321-231 · all A321-231s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6523
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Iae V2533-A5 · 31,600 lb thrust
- Seats
- 379
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- ACC3B4 (octal 53141664)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 30, 2015
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · April 18, 2015
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01172224
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airlines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1 Skyview Dr
MD 8B369
Fort Worth, TX 76155
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.
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The public federal record on N921US, 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 American Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 30, 2015, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated April 18, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6523 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N921US according to the deregistered file. [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 N921US: Accident on May 5, 2023 at Charlotte, NC: 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: Airbus A321-231 · operated under 121
The captain’s failure to maintain the appropriate airspeed and pitch attitude during landing which resulted in a tailstrike.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data