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N981NN

Boeing 737-823

Valid Texas

N981NN is a Boeing 737-823, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2015. 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 November 20, 2015 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 16, 2015.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing
Model
737-823 · all 737-823s and related versions
Serial number
31230
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Cfm Intl CFM56-7B24E · 24,200 lb thrust
Seats
162
Year built
2015
Transponder code
ADB014 (octal 53330024)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 20, 2015
Expires
November 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 23, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · November 16, 2015
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01185227

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
American Airlines INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1 Skyview Dr
MD 8B369
Fort Worth, TX 76155

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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 N981NN, 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 American Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 20, 2015, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated November 16, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31230 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N981NN 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 N981NN. 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