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N972AK

Boeing 737-9

N972AK is a Boeing 737-9, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2021. It has 48 seats. It is registered to Alaska Airlines INC, a corporation in Seatac, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 14, 2022.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
737-9 · all 737-9s and related versions
Serial number
43389
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl LEAP-1B28 SER · 29,317 lb thrust
Seats
48
Year built
2021
Transponder code
AD8B1D (octal 53305435)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 7, 2022
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · January 14, 2022
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01353668

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Alaska Airlines INC
Type
Corporation
Address
C/O Legal Seazl
19300 International Blvd
Seatac, WA 98188-5304

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N972AK, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Alaska Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 7, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated January 14, 2022, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 43389 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N972AK according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N972AK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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