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Boeing 737-823
N981AN is a Boeing 737-823, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2009. 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 April 23, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated April 14, 2009.
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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
- 29569
- 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 CFM56-7B24/3 · 22,800 lb thrust
- Seats
- 162
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- ADAEE8 (octal 53327350)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 2009
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- 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 · April 14, 2009
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01016753
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
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
Connections how N981AN links to the rest of the register
- Boeing 737 2,894 registered
- Boeing 6,676 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- CFM International CFM56-7B24/3 113 aircraft with this engine series · 22,800 lb thrust
- American Airlines INC 1,000 aircraft in the fleet
- Fort Worth, TX 1,887 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 29,945 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing 737 855 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing 737 436,568 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing 737 2,230 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the CFM International CFM56-7B24/3 15 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the CFM International CFM56-7B24/3 144 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Trim System, inoperative · 2026-06-10
- Report filed on this aircraft: Sliding Window, dislodged · 2026-05-11
- Report filed on this aircraft: Web, corroded · 2026-03-04
- Where N981AN is now · Last seen today at 7:01 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N981AN.json.
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The public federal record on N981AN, 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 April 23, 2009, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated April 14, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 29569 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N981AN was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 737-823 (serial 30897, cancelled December 12, 2001). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N981AN. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data