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Boeing 737-823
N971AN is a Boeing 737-823, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2001. It has 162 seats. It is registered to American Airlines INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated September 24, 2001.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 8:54 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- 737-823 · all 737-823s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Boeing 737 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 29547
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cfm Intl. CFM56 SERIES · 2200 hp
- Seats
- 162
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- AD8769 (octal 53303551)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 24, 2001
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00963904
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airlines INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1 Skyview Dr
MD 8B369
Fort Worth, TX 76155-1801
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.
Connections how N971AN links to the rest of the register
- Boeing 737 2,891 registered
- Boeing 6,672 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- CFM International CFM56 series 708 aircraft with this engine series · 2200 hp
- American Airlines INC 997 aircraft in the fleet
- Fort Worth, TX 1,880 aircraft registered in this town
- Fort Worth Meacham International · FTW
- Fort Worth Spinks Airport · FWS
- Perot Fld/Fort Worth Alliance Airport · AFW
- Bourland Field · 50F
- 3 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing 737 853 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing 737 436,304 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing 737 2,230 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the CFM International CFM56 series 56 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the CFM International CFM56 series 2,447 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Light, unsecure · 2026-03-16
- Report filed on this aircraft: Module, faulty · 2026-02-27
- Report filed on this aircraft: Flashlight, inoperative · 2026-02-23
- Where N971AN is now · Last seen Thursday at 8:54 pm.
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The public federal record on N971AN, 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 July 29, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated September 24, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 29547 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N971AN 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N971AN. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data